POWERS' EX-WIFE CONTESTS DIVORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

T''ASHINCTON ST \ 2
MAR 3 1963
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6rs' Ex-Wife,
Contests Divorce
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Mar.
2 (AP).-The former wife of
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers
has filed a motion for a new
divorce trial.
Barbara Powers' lawyer, Rob-
ert Greene, said today he filed
the motion on February 14 and
a hearing has been set for
March 15. Mr. Powers was
granted a divorce January 16,1
,
after testimony that his wife l
was "habitually drunk." Mrs.
Powers was awarded a $5,000
lump sum payment, plus $500
for attorney fees. No provision
was made for alimony.
Mr. Greene said Mrs. Powers
will claim that Mr. Powers was;
not a resident of Georgia and
that the Baldwin County Court':
had no authority to grant him
a divorce.
The lawyer said the motion
alleges also that the verdict
was contrary to evidence.
Mr. Powers, now a test pilot
for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in
California, spent 20 months in
a Russian prison after his re-
connaissance plane r' a s
brought down in the Soviet
Union in May 1960. j
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