HOME TOWN TO GREAT POWERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080127-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 127
• Publication Date: March 11, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK POST MAR 1 11 1y b L
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Dome Town to Greed Powers
Big Stone Gap, Va., March 10 his father runs a cob5ler shop; rison; the state's two Senators.
---The hill-country .neighbors of and Big 8b9pp Gap. Harry Byrd and A. Willis Rob-
U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers Big St Gap was picked ertson; and Rep. Pat Jennings.
will welcome him home here as the ' ~ the "welcome Whether all these dignitaries
Monday in ceremonies that may home ce ebration because it actually will be here Monday
be long speeches but definite hays tIieg ~pssary facilities- afterriodin' was not announced.
short on hod la a c,tg, j y
P a_ q that will 13A1{f last ' night after a conference
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come," said Big Stone -Upl a"y- "Everything we're going to people in this area felt "that
or Carl Murphy. But,-he said, do will be inside," said Mayor since he (Powers) had been
there will be no parade, no Murphy. "It shouldn't run more cleared by the Central Intellig-
motorcade, no bands when than an hour, the whole works. ence Agency, he should be wet=
Powers revisits his native Wise I We're going to put a strict ! coined home. We want him to
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He said Cesar Af- 'Nor.
on, an n attorney an close friend
of flowers and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Oliver Powers, "has
been in Constant touch" with
the U2 pilot whose plane Was
der. ned over the Soviet Unioh
in May, 1960.
"We understand Powers will
stay here a few days at least,"
Murphy said. He said. he didn't
know whether Powers' wife,
Barbara, now in Milledgeville,
Ga., would come up for the wel?
come home ceremonies "but I
11nd of believe she will.
"Of course, she'll be welcome."
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400080127-6