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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: April 16, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN

Approved For Release 2000/08/03 :CIA-RDP7
ASSOCIATED PRESS APRIL 16, 1962
A 92 WX
POWERS (110) 25X1A
WASHINGTON? APRIL 16 (AP)- U-2 PILOT FRANCIS GARY POWERS AND HIS
WIFE HAVE TAKEN AN APARTMENT IN NEARBY ALEXANDRIA? VA., FOR ABOUT A
MONTH, IT WAS LEARNED TODAY.
NO ONE ANSWERED THE TELEPHONE WHEN A REPORTER GALLED.
HOWEVER, POWERS? SISTER, MRS. W. E. HILEMAN OF GLASSbiANOR, tAD., TOLD
A gEPORTER THAT POWERS HAD BEEN IN THE APARTMENT A FEW WEEKS AND WOULD
BE THERE ABOUT A MONTH.
THE SISTER SAID POWERS WAS STILL WORKING FOR THE CEN`.fRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY AND WHERE HE GOES NEXT "HE DOESN ? T EVEN KNOYi. "
POi~ERS WAS DOWNED ON A HIGH ALTITUDE PHOTO REGONNAISSANCE FLIGHT
LIVER THE SOVIET UNION ON MAY 1, 1960? IMPRISONED AND THEN RELEASED
EARLIER THIS YEAR IN A SWAP FOR SOVIET MASTER SPY RUDOLF ABEL.
A SUESEQUENT INVEST IGAT ION CLEARED HIM OF ANY GiRONG DOING.
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 :CIA-RDP75-000018000400080093-4