POWERS, U-2 PILOT, GIVEN DIVORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 16, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

JAN 1 6 1963
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R00 -
STATINTL
l'owers, U-I
Pilot, Given
Divorce
MILLEDGEVILLE,. Ga.,
Jan. 16. - (U.P.I.) - Francis
Gary, Power, the former U-2
pilot, was ;granted a divorce
today from :e;';wfe he charged
was a ",habitual drunk." A had.
jury deliverae,d the case about
an hour.
Powers, 33,; was ordered to
make a $5,000 cash settlement
with his svifg, Barbara, and
pay her attorney fees of $500.
No provision was made for ali-
mony.
Mrs. Powers was, not in the
courtroom. when". 'Pe verdict`
was' hnnounced.' She had
stepped out for lunch.
Pow 6f ' sfmow no signs of
emotion when to decision was
announced. He charged during
the trial that while he was in
a Soviet prison his wife neg-
lecteo lected him to such an
extent that "even the Russians
got, worried."
Mrs. Powers 'countered that
imprisonment had left Pow-
ers a changed man, "void of
all feeling" except 'bitterness
toward her. "All he wants is
his money," she sobbed.
Mrs. Powers; 28, had filed a
countersuit charging that Pow-
ers had failed to treat her like
an average American hou
wife. {
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400090026-7