EVEN THEY RUSSIANS - GOT WORRIED . . .

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090027-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: January 16, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON DAILY JAN 16 1963
NEWSApproved For Release 1999/09/17: CIA-RDP75-
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U.2 POWERS ACCUSES WIFE
Jai%` 16 (LT.- Former
U-2 pilot Fricis Gary
Powers told a divorce
Court yesterday that his
wire was an habitual
drunk who sent ,,.hint
'?heap" magazines--it: a
Soviet prison and.ne et-
ed him to such an Went
thya.t "even the Russians
n wt hied."
fr
Ait
EDG,U`VILLE, Ga.,
habitually drunk and abii-
sive. Mr. Powers, 28, file a
courlif Suit, charging that3it.
Powers failed to treat her like
an average American house-
wife.
..Mr. POtvers said he went
as 1pn as 45 days without a
letter from his wife while in
bison, $he;u si ,,w n ,4el
ug t ' bqr,-xvr~itr}g, he said.
t p i became a . matter of
i fndern to both American
and Russian officials in Mos-
Cow,
v
#a~P gurecg~ed several
'packages f9), wt` e 41 but
some conta it SU cheap
st`other Pexding matter.
money," she. sobbed. -"The oniy person who eve,
A jury of 12 married men """"'"`C" "'? `V - "?' ,.;
w expected to receive the prison in Russia was my
c-ase today and decide whether wife, Barbara," Mr. Powers
er Russ in ? 960'she m tied Mr R,g,we or
an .iril~r j. t o~ets aninnshi ifs.' and chil-
'
Ile 33 yegr~glirlot , whtisa'
?rust gay hWk vif y. '.X IV W but I cin't hkve an op-
eight years last Augus_, ` Vn .tea o e s a -
assigned by_ the Central In-
r. Powers 33, petit ed`. she w sWna%-ale at the time
for divorce rom Ins w f t P c. _ h- d b
prison in exchange foi''Siio'ie.l t U-2 flights o tussia, f ~l~y j
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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400090027-6