POWERS' FATHER ATTACKS BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080057-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 57
• Content Type: NSPR

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Powers' Father
Attacks Book
ROANOKE, Va., June 8 (AP).!
-"The U-2 Affair," a book on I
the flight of Prancis Gary.
Powers over Russia, is "largelyl
fiction," ' Mr. Powers' father',
says.
Oliver Powers says his on I
is writing his own account of j
the flight and that it shouldf
be published about the first ofj
the year.
The pilot told him last week
end that the David Wise-'
Thomas Ross book is "about a
third right," the father told the
Roanoke Wotid-News yester-
day. Meami'lie, the pilot re-
fuses to ~tograph the book,
the father Mild, adding:
"Why ai Id he? It's largely
fiction."
His sail ? told him his book
Is going { be "very much dif-
ferent ft &t this thing," said
the Nor t (Va.) shoemaker.
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