SPY PILOT'S DAD WRITES KHRUSHEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060051-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: NSPR

w~,~---?~ ' 1Jiv ,sv~p
ST14TI
said he was writing to Pre?
mier Nikita ?'S. Khrushchev
today "as one father to an.
outer asking for his son's re.
lease.
I Jiver W. Powers pf Pound, lc.,'a;`#
who operates a shoe repair;
shop in this southwest Vir-
ginia town, said he would airs
?mail this plea:
"My -Dear Mr..Khruslichev:
"I eltend to you and .Mrs. it
Khrushchev my regards as
one' parent to another. Pilot
k l~?12 QN, Va., May 19 (AP)
The, lathes ",of,,,the American;
, pilot` held 'by' Soviet ? Russiai
Francis Powerao is . my only
son.
"[ ani asking you to be len-
ient with-him in your dealings
with him. He has always been
?a fine young man and'we love
hint very much. }
"As o11@ father to..another.I
plead Ic?lth'yoi 'to leCbim come
home as soon as you can find
it. in your heart to do.so that
ha ~ may be with us a. whine
o a
longer.`' ,},,;
'Please give hint'thla .note
from 1113, niothUI. CIIC1o3Ca ,, Ins
'his letter, . sl.,
it very much if
reply as soon as j
Francis Powerr
taken into. eustc
Russlans May: 1.
'en't they shot doY
j during a spying tT
the Urals..
'.3p, was
y by the
he SoVWets?
his plane'..
.ton over'
ved.Fo:r Re1ease 1--99