POWERS TAKES TESTING JOB FOR LOCKHEED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080026-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 4, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 20010634iADP75-00001
Try of spying. He was freed last
owers 1 a ke s ,February 10 in an exchange for
Rudolf Abel, a Russian spy im-
Testing job Iprisoned in the United States.
When Mr. Powers returned,'
the CIA said he had lived up
For Lockheed' his $2,500-a-month contracts
; and would be retained for an
BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 3' undetermined period.
(AP).-Francis Gary 'Powers,, Mr.-Powers was a test pilot
the U-2 pilot captured by the;for Lockheed before joining the
Russians and convicted as aCIA?
spy, is back flying U-2s again
-as a test pilot.
He has quit the Central In-
telligence Agency and taken a
job with Lockheed Aircraft
Corp., which makes the high-
Iflying U-2 photographic planes.
Mr. Power's was hired two
weeks ago as an engineering
i test pilot, a Lockheed spokes-
man confirmed. The CIA said
last night Mr. Powers resigned
October 6 because he had fin
ished his work with us."
Mr. Powers was not available
for comment.
Mr. Powers' U-2 crashed
while flying over Russia on May
1, 1960. He parachuted to safe-
Jty, was captured and convicted
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