SPIES: POWERS' STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080118-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: March 12, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/08/03
CIA-RDP75-00
SPIES:
Pow '' i2Ly__.
Not only was the U-2's "destruct but-
ton" out of reach, pilot Francis Gary
Powers has told Central Intelligence
Agency interrogators, but he nearly
failed to- jump free. "While the plane
was falling," he said, in effect, "I sud-
denly remembered how another pilot
got out of a similar fix. He couldn't budge
the jammed ejection mechanism, and
pushed at the canopy. It gave way.
"I tried it and it worked."
A11 of this, and more, is embodied,.in.a
report `that CIA eruct John"A, I?1cCor]e, is._.
cxpccte o; rvei this ,ock, Powers,
v iat s more, said his Russian captors
subjected him to no ph} sical or mental
cruelty. Astonishingly, lie wasn't even
asked about arrangements for landing in
Norway and other countries.
Powers, in short, passed all CIA tests,
including the lie dctectoi.'In spite bf his
open-court confession of spying, presum-
ably he will collect the $50,000-odd
mowed him under his contract.
MAR 1 2 1962
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Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400080118-6