POWERS STILL WITH THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080054-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: June 17, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK MIRRCi?R
JUN I 7 1ynL
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-0
'Powers
Still !Tflm
lie is working for the Central
Intelligence Agency at duties
which are undisclosed, bitt which
apparently do not include flying.
HE IS $EPORTEI?y'riting a
boodc on his flight, w*:, li ended
deep inside Russia, his ;trial and
21 months in. a Soviet prison, and
his eventual. exchange for, con-
victed Soviet spy Rudolph Abel.
With a few exceptions Powers
Has gone quietly about his busi-
ness without publicrt$' since his
appearance before a CCoragression-
al committee.
Powers said that one exception
was when he visited Pope's Creek
near the little town of La Plata,
Md.. he was discovered and people
lined up to get his autograph.
Another exception was in late
April when his wife Barbara was
laken to Georgetown University
Hospital here with an acute
stomach ailment which the hos-
pital diagnosed as a "medication
reaction." Police said she had
taken an overdose of sleeping
pills.
('IA Director McCone,has been
attempting to have the agency
slow up somewhat 'less in the
press than did his predecessor,
Allen Dulles.
All the CIA will say about Pow-
rrs is that "he works for us."
3':k nifitude undoubtedly stems
turn the fact that though the
,?i,cral ,ctorv is known, there still
:n c sliiiie a number of undisclosed
.11,01re 1'. ,,t lire i,J2 fiiehi..
-- Four months after he wralised
to freedom".acra$s,_a B tl rt bridge,
former:' pilot Frances Clary,
Pnwers~r sins an obbctpre fib;. I lie CIA gave Potters fullexon-
tire.aroun Washington lnitp ,iiurr for his conduct during his
ed oc*asio tally, tallked more i. ht and at his Soviet trial. It
frequehtly, but always. ayoiding ieund lie had "lived up to the
the public spotlight ; i, inns of his employment and in-
The 32-year-old pilot afr'h,Qse 'an rut lions."
successful 1960 espionage ,;light lll: WAS, 4GIV'EN $50,000 back
over Russia toppled a sun r nit f,ay, and the Internal Revenue
meeting, has been living_-gulr:tly :,,,.vice ruled he could spread the
in an apartment in suburban t -es on this over two years.
Alexandria, Va., generally" On
- I'Llt no one has ever completely
noticed by most 'or his neighbors.
-Ioared up publicly the TritysterY
WASPI GTON. Jute rT6- (
of how his plane was brought
hewn.
-soviet Premier Khrushhcev told
the Russian people it was done
.'. ith "a remarkable rocket."
powers lit his Senate testimony
said lie did not know the answer.
)Its first sign of disaster, he said,
was when he "heard and felt" an
explosion and saw an orange
light.
'l'lien his plane was falling in
spin, and after a struggle
a
against the forces of, gravity, he
hailed out without beinng able to
slat t the mechanism which would
?lave destroyed the plane after
le- left it. he testified.
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400080054-7