PASSING THOUGHT FOR FRANCIS POWERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060055-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: May 16, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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C. Powers. will bs b flie ovtet`.
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exchanged for"`Ruseia'i
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is tin, far outside to e'thought"of'aer of
It : Powyts left Russia; de}would be,'abIs ..: thelc'dtlz pship to Utopia.
? otarcc and his U2 plane . to be .pl;ted `up,41i 'AMERICANS who never make a pi
r,-cn.niz.ible pieces and It -would not ":sttb? flee df giving uifellow, citizen the jienefft
Fi,,ntiate everything his 'captors have brtq ,?. ja ?dotes ei+In teed off on Powers, "jai
A is of no impot'tance. to ld now. and never?. '-stupid; 'a coward or -worse for .riot 1 num-i
will he;. but itt be camp' home ltis ? true'atohy baring 1q brow himself. his Vrplane dnd ht(
tors here, either. theorizer with access to the ppblte':
1't1E UNITED STATES owes itself and ts the hdddcnt'agalnta a`baeltgrnund of?lgnor--rt
A!hes an apology for the way it reacted from ante 'mod tar too ?many'theorizers' yielded totr'
the spy plane. incident. . tFmptatien. ~~
r! the flussian, spy "system is' one-tenth as'' . It? has not been a reass4ring e:t*rieuce.
people are to. hold:.up-their sad tit
a l v(lie~i tteport, the -FBI bed re~ "
};phi vi* of 4eptonagete the- p ti t
if Mf! kwarch wey that Russia
fta t> Sbed " r wgrldat =for the United ;
rrtwtts to the ,Kret An 'w1ll;pse3te~ Ike
Reds wonder 'i"t'. he ?poeaibilltyiaf
us grind gursei~tes rtig,""mincetrieat, wi
? own misgivings "; and hysteria.
There was., first of all, wlde d
Mat the. United; Stat ; could be`
carrying on eaplonage. never t
to millions of Amerlcaea ,that"-it
rnent . was as :realistic `'about keeping
informed as, other vm4rments am
Then the;e.wais?ttte breathle throat-cutting
of paritsan5, 'biro 'mod into the sharpened knives ' pointed at Pr E:4-1
a bower for pertrmttting' such a thicg.:to;bappeti,
T ,?od ,by thp'statieaman
eiriocrati of stature - but the
,,41 thetr ?nosti marlin
fdi'merly untpuchable beads
acted" believers in the ?Blu* It
the',way d ngs are deco In..
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Approved For Reietfse':1999109/17 : 'CIA-RDP'