FATE UP IN AIR, CAPTURED U-2 PILOT WRITES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060030-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 15, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

PATE UP IN AIR, I
CAPTURED U-2
PILOT WRITES,
But "Wife's Told` Reds
Treat Him Well
4?filledl'eville, :Ga., .thie 14
ISpecial -Francis Gary Pow-
ers. downed U-2 plane pilot
writ ren to his wife" saying he
hz.s nit It 'a of hit ultiniat'
late shut has been told h `
'Pound, Va., said Monday he
plans 1.0 visit his son in about
60 days.
The, physician said',n' uch
of Powers -letter "was con-
cerned with personal4bings.''
Arnorig: these ryas the pilaf';
lament that our boat I.rio
ha ?ln }viii have to'b ?i esi
poned_,nd the h a.m e we
planned will have .td "be put
oft
Powers was captured May
1 after his plane{ waj, downed
SCveiral weeks 'later' his. Wife
was _flowu to the, United;
Stites from Turkey, where'
M. Barbara Oay..POwers,'.leg broltcn in a "skiing. acci
f rout sotlee z ass imprison- who revealed in 'Mf11ed iville,
B elem. She is pow living at the
ruent to death for f 1 i g h t s 1Ga., that she has received a let- hornei of her rrtc-theii in this
over the o~aiCt Unlt#n. ter from her husbam], Francis ,tuiet Georgia town.
Mrti Barbara Gay Pothhc s, Powers, U-2 plane`liflat impris-
25, diseldsed r on'l!O of the r?t5rr- fined by the Russians.
tents of 'her ' iuraband' let r
Tuesday t I ' e sfateme3it was i a yard where >ik gets sun
Ls
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gh
lipu
p4 R r
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on- Moscow Desuiltrfl 'thy
Terence at tivls~c h Mrs ow,
ears didnot appear.. . "A few-days_atter his cap-
We11. Treated in Prison tune he was takers of a'"tour
The pilot's wife said she of Moscow and BOA the re-
mains of hispl#ne. He de-
received the letter in regular
:nail May WI and that it was !scribed Moscow as ' b eauti-
lrostrnarlceidMo co* five days f ul city. =
earlier. it''was in her h'us-' " b'fv husband Ilas no idea
Band's handvt?ritin~ she said. of his ultimate fate. T he y