GARY POWERS, U-2 PILOT, ENDS POST WITH CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080030-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 3, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000
NOV 31962
'l' 'ARY POWERS,
I)-2 PILOT, ENDS
POST WITH CIA
Washington, Nov, 2 (UPf---
Former dJ-2 Pilot Francis Gary i
Powers hps resigned from the
Central Intelligence agency, it
was learned today. One source
said he left the agency be-
cause "his work was finished."
Powers quit the CIA on Oct.
f,, eight days short of another
U-2 flight over Cuba which pro-
duced the first hard evidence
of Russian-missile bases there.
The. 33-year-old flier had
been. working at CIA head-
quarters here since his return
to Washington from a Russian
prison last winter. He was a
CIA employe when he flew
his ill-fated surveillance mis-
sion over the Soviet Union on
May 1, 1960.
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400080030-3