U-2 PILOT FRANCES GARY POWERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080124-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: March 12, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

s Y MAR 4 2 1962
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People
U-2 PILOT Francis Gary
Powers, at home at
last in Pound, Va., was be-
ing given a hero's welcome
by his fellow-townsfolk of
Southwest Virginia. Rep.
Pat Jennings (D., Va.),
mayors of seven towns,
color guards, and National
Guard units were to take
part in a parade and a re-
ception in Big Stone Gap's
Armory, largest building,
in Wise County. One of
Mr. Powers' first actions
at home: He put on boots
and helped push a car out
of the mud left by last
week's thaw.
U-2 pilot Powers tackles a.slower cehltle, a stuck,iurthe iuu,i auto hekniging to Charles
Flinner, UPI correspondent, who went to Pound, Va., to intervie< loin.
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400080124-9