POWERS REFUSED TO QUIT FLYING TO WIN BARBARA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060043-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: June 3, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

ME5. HERALD 'JUil 3 1960
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word. ? atteadld hiders 2$ b
? MILL ED G E V I L L E Ga
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, fUPIS-Barbara Gay Powers . Typical of..)lis, shyness with
wanted her suitor to quit fling rls; Powers, met B.iraa
be ,he would marry him 'trough her mw{her, Ile was an
But Francis Powers .told 'her ' F64 thunder Jet pilot w,th the
she'would have In take the'Air 46.Sth Fighler Sgydron. of the-
Forcr 'and f1": inc. too, if she Strategic Air Command hAsK
wanted him-and-she, d.d. . at. Turner A1r Force: Base out-
he s t r i k, n g. dark-hatred side Albany
Georgia girl, now 24 but only Mrs. Brown worked in the
18 when ?h" married. has borne base caletnia-anct Ft-, he. so
up well waiting for news of the o14eif did with 'oiclet women-
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fate of U2 pilot Fran,-4 Gary the, young?.man endeared him-. lellect and of ebitatter. Fron? - . The biography the Air Force
Powers, now ?ri Russian hands. self to tier. Mrs, Brown bro~sht cis had. It. He
.was reserved, his issued on Powers runs a
? Mrs. Powers has gone into her young daughtrr to meet the but not withdrawn. He was. the cant 200 words and
c`trera only
? , seclusion, spending. part of her handszmte pilot from the Vir- tti?pe of ?peLson you knew Ytt hlF r out! n e assignments ? to '
time here in. the tiny green and ginia Hills and tltPtr eotzrtaldp ? could cant m. Those of us t yt aed
. white cottage of her mother, was swift..Mrs. ?Powerts calls here at j1RlUigan are prvup of Georgia, phis two tanontht non-
Mrs. Monteen ,Brown: and at hor husband Gary-iof Frail. him.". combat ? service in Japan dttr" . ' -
.the hoate.of her married stste!r CIL aw ONE f ~ t iztg the ROrcan War:
.? Mrs..Powers no doubt kW" The .g$1 didn't wapt any cnil-
a . greettr.deal about her hits. dr`en so long at her 'husband
'ttand'q high altitude flights over was flying and they-have had
Russia from Adana,` ?pricy, none. In 1956, ..dowers.reaigo'-d
where he was based. 'But -toy. tit'-eosamiu1pa with the Air
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emraest and ?l.oettheccl officials Force so took a joo6 as
obviously have warned her to pilot" with Lockheed Aircraft.
Sag'. absolutely nothing. ' ' . i1,56G 'Q. S1'AEtT ? -
At the one news ronferenr?e He was Cta1'dtig '$627.48 per
tenant. '!'ire l.ocict ed?job paid
$1,500 a lhotth to start. Pre-
mier ?W1 ' Ktnirheliev hits
xaid,Powers told Russian au.,
J thotitles he was snaking. $2;500 '
ur yo
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a month and thkt he was SAV- for bim?"to ins stdtrtsied to rho on ??1ye part from the school that ?.
irtg to buy a house. to medical 1lc~logl il~:3rll3aihe! i -
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had. Ft Instead, ~ts4 retlrned ? 'It quickened {
o a acit ix our zeal and Du?
Pr pilot, one one of the lop, ft' In to t the ho rft -Ill Pgriryd? Vs.. and Ime for the truth.
his squadron., But his t eord enlisted In the Air' ,e>t"e. , And. altt?nys our taint hearts
WAS tint. partleuld-ly d/atin" -Stationed' it -W rr Yield In, ler?vnt' it iced,
guished- His 'only- decotvatlon ? in MassVhuset(s.e e ' Soong tWe ? Shall. ever.-admire, as this
was the National' Defense,Serv- man avao. taken "for too. . moment we do,
ice. Medal, given to?ail men in rl{le'.yltith U* inns" "All the t,,,u te
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? ser't ice sung inc eboreen war puu+ng in uu',I- awe. rim worth of her Dame'
vtftdther toes ware In ooi bat love of fl4ng' re-dsCakened ` "iHer children will stay to,
her
or not. 41e never was. And, atter,.t~ in which be ? alfnlo trub,
$ut there. was something etx bpcame`a r5d 1. Powers Put "While dry- ubs of devotion
era about the: yowls ru tw Ix tbr'fli~ ng. - tight to
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.that in rRti~ect , s
berg a quality abou1`'th Young
man that set- him issue.
' "I've seen the prime tr#lt.tn
young neon singled out for work
$y' .the Federal , ure*U W116-;
restigatfoa," try bead of -the
tiny Tennessee eolkege said. ''r went to a'schooi -zit GIeer}
"We -try to ! .the. qualities : ?. . Miss., run by .civilians mr h~P
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0 Air Force and got his
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, "It's a ctrtaht -l of ire rtl,t't u,ttgs on I~ec
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classmites.' Clause Calloway of trNt the`"~ ~ o c.that
Gastonia, N.G. as 'a kind' of t,t,?h,?d the young flier into' an
bug on physics' fitness. interrsUonal incident and may.. ~t?~.
:"He trained sJA exerQised bring' hIs dPa th as a ' spy,'
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he had a hegdache, he' wrwla ? ot" the night Hof graduation.,dn
ge ib bed and stefep. it off." ' .41516 $ and .n a Mill has the poem '
His krAdes at'M1IAgan. were ?. 1h+t Francis wrote and rears ?' t
not outotanding-roushly Herr is ho?? it goes:
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