POWERS WIFE UNDER STUDY AT HOSPITAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080074-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: April 22, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Under Study
At Hospital
By Lon Tuck
Staff Reporter
Barbara Powers was report-
ed in "satisfactorry" condition
at Georgetown University Hos-
pital yesterday where she was
admitted Friday, unconscious
and suffering from an as yet
undiagnosed illness.
A hospital spokesman said
Mrs. Powers, wife of U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers, re-
gained consciousness late Fri-
day and "is being studied to
determine the cause of her iii-
ness."
Hospital officials and police
connected with the case issued
contradictory reports Friday
and would not clarify the case
yesterday.
District police originally
said Mrs. Powers took "an
overt#ose. of approximately 28,
NerhbUtal` capsules"-a birbit-
uate. They said the informa-;
tion came from Georg'qtown.I
Dr. George E. Schreiner, the
Georgetown staff physician
who treated Mrs. Powers,
denied that police got the
Nembutal report from the hos-
pital. He "discounted" the
report as exaggerated and im-
probable."
Lt. Nelson S. Rickey of the
Seventh precinct, reached at
home, said the Nembutal re-
port was turned in by Pvt.
J. E. St. John who was "un-
`;,available" yesterday' it was
"his day off." Police on duty,
said St. John did work. Rickey
suggested the Nembutal ver
sion may have originated on!,
the transport from Alexandriai
Hospital where Mrs. ,Powers;
was first taken when her hus- I
band called a. rescue squad.
(The couple lived in Hunting
Towers apartments in Alex-
andria.)
She was transferred , to
Georgetown after preliminary
treatment for "medication re-
action."
Alexandria Hospital author-,
ities would not release any
material about the case. "One
spokesman claimed the in-
formation had to be cleared
by the Central Intelligence,
Agency, which still employs
Powers.
However, a CIA spokesman;
said the affair was "a family;
Matter, not a CIA one."
District homicide detectives
said yesterday they went to
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examine r e c o r as of the
Powers case but were refused.