SPY ROLE CLAIM SHOCKS DOWNED PILOT'S FAMILY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060079-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 79
• Content Type: NSPR

Downed .Pilot's t
The family of? +ty-rteta C1. newsman t1t$t At11'. 1Ckrushchev - had r4t- been
Powers. the captive AmedW..Il d their to raft-aircraft
pilot. wqa stunned last night killed by Ruselait
by news the United 8taW nQw
:aondedeA e? may WOW
Us a mission when shot
^ down by the Russians.
"We're just sliOCk d-we-wn
-don't believe it.", said. 4 sister,
Mrs. Janide. P. Melvin Of 1604
Neslon drive. F's711s C"h. Va.
STATINTL
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family in churCI Etfnday'bdt Creek area`b~twe Fed d
she has to MW r husband, CUntaood. Va ? - ,,r
Verb W. Melr3tl,1-merlcan qtr wens "!tll ,a
oil Co. employe,IW l of ?li~itlltan 4"
nap lert. N
such 1c{Ltel. ''Repel., vvhs t lsL
nzy~brotiter"t$t
much.
elothdr Itpd"?ks,--
The ttlilutiD1 i,,pevMT
tairi~ ~!t> as tar ~
,
win as Tie C V kel
Adwna.' Turkey.:,g said.
The family wu:soi1ned by
lied charges that her prother
might be charged 0 a. dpy.
'"That'' just not true. It't
not Qastdbi4.'.' ".JOY" .
Members of the family said
Mr. Powers left the Air Force
'ot>ae fly; 'ears, ago Aboat the' . .
titrLS' hs. sipasMd, eta 4prin r
Spy Role _clQim.:~noctcs
Mr.- Powers spent yesterday
as usual W' his shop In nearby
orton.'Ia.. when IN b s dilbe-
sker by -ka{k? ' mrs., PDweti.
rdferict Itbos,h,hsfrt sibs.
remained at .W c ; W . her
five daub t f .
Rita Melvin. along with het.I Three pL 04 daughters--
four sieterl,. hurrtecr .ta Joi'i Joyce, 20. Mrs. Cl. Oaf t. and.
their parents in Mill Creek Va.. Mrs. Jo$AAi Meade. live in
d
clo~~ed ,their brother's plane had Mrss.. d
Mrs.` Melvun said that, a. aaa jou _e - cry
as *nYnne in the family knew,;week When word ' cam! the
Mr.. Powers was worklna,.for the il?ranett was missing. '
Lockheed - Aircraft Cbrp.. and . Mr. Powers ieceive4 a call
was arsigned to. high-alt1tu4,e from the mother Qt file d4ugh-
weatlher research for the 'Va. { ter.in-law i r d i c a t 1 h g that
tional Aeroneutld and Space Francis' wife. "garbara, . has
'Administration. ? ' left Adana', Turkey. where he
ras bases. Mrs. Melvin a?id abe
Pilot's Mother Is Ill , believed the younger. Fa'
She said, Word of the UnitediPowera to e#t routs back t6tthe
Opitod St?tes.
bad states' other new came er ?W':ar4:#aL 1i[. pWtrL
bad all l other news of her
brothel--through a.cali'from al ;
? newspaper reporter,' ' bhr _ said
.her father might have had sam%
of lcial word from the Goverri
ment. but had not yet told the,
family: ' '
: the pilot's mother who Will. reacted, with "disbelief" to the
She's been t4}d a littliebwjtti
The'Go+veiinmedtr titenne~it,'
,swept the family earlier
it was announced Mr. Powers
w;e alive.. They ."t4?110 at-)
tend services..
Church of.Cbrlst in Pound. Vi
"We are?'a feltttoW, 4amily
Iease ppbartsi?ed.? 1weCis: wet
Saw
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eats. Be. and, irlrs: Oliver K
tat le' frrom'VdaYhirit do