MRS. POWERS OUT OF HOSPITAL AFTER MYSTERY ILLNESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080068-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: April 26, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Mrs. Powers Out
Of Hospital After;
Mystery Illness
WASHINGTON (AP) .
Mrs, Barbara Powers, wife of
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers,
has been discharged from
Georgetown University Hospi-
tal, a spokesman there said
yesterday.
Mrs, Powers, 27, was taken to
the hospital in a coma Friday,
left on Monday with the nature
of her illness still something of
a mystery.
Mr. Powershimse if was not
immediately available for com-
ment on a New York newspaper
story that quoted him as saying
his wife had indigestion and
that a report she had taken an
overdose of sleeping pills was
silly.
When Mrs. Powers was ad-
mitted to the hospital, police
said she was reported to have
taken an overdose of sleep- in-
ducing barbiturate. '
On Sunday, the day before
she was released, a hospital
spokesman said no diagnosis of
her illness had been made. No;
further information on her con-
dition was immediately avail-
able from hospital officials %pTday. ,/
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