POWERS TO GET WELCOME HOME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080143-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 143
• Publication Date: March 9, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Powers to Get
Welcome Home
ROANOKE, Va., Mar. 9 (AP).
-It's home to the hills "on
Monday or Tuesday" for freed
1J-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers.
That is the word from Pound,
his hometown, and Norton,
where his fa e; workq . .
A big ho eption J
is planned rton. . com-
munity of It people In thb
southwestern',,porner of Vir-
ginia.
4r. Powers s reported uh-
dergoing al checkup at
Geor.getown $
tai In W _lrersity HOSpi'
, D. C., after
in a Sovlet.
pr espionage, He
was i'r a February 10 in ex-
change for master spy Rudolf
Abel.
The welcome will "be just a
local effort-to tell him we're
glad to have him back," the
source said.
Details of the teception were
to be worked out at a meeting
of Norton, Pound and Wise
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