POWERS GRANTED DIVORCE ALIMONY RULED FOR WIFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 16, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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a ump-su p
plus $500 in attorneys' fees.1 and that she cursed and abused
The jury deliberated about half him without cause.
A Superior - Court jury
granted Mrs. Barbara Powers
1 m' ayment of $5 000
Alimony Ruled for Wife
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Jan. a reconnaissance mission over
16 (AP).-Francis Gary Powers, the Soviet Union in May, 1960.
former U-2 pilot who served a; A jury of 12 married men
prison term in Russia, was' heard the divorce suit, which
granted a divorce today. Mr. Powers filed last' August.
owersGranted Divorce`
deal . . . he's not the same,"
the 28-year-old Mrs.' Powers
said, adding, "he took all his
bitterness out on Me
Mr. Powers, 33, testified yes-
terday in his cofitested divorce
suit that "the only person who
ever mistreated me while I was
in prison in Russia was my
wife Barbara."
"I went for 45 days without
a letter. It was just too much,"
said Mr. Powers, who spent
nearly two years in a Russian
rison after being downed on
whom he married in 1955, was
guilty of habitual intoxication
Mrs. Powers in her counter
suit, asked an unspecified
amount of alimony. She charged
that since his return to' this
that her husband was "not.thelcountry, Mr. Powers "had lost
same" since his return from a,his whole sense of values and
as an American citizen
Russian prison. al his
Bitterness Cited I toward his wife, his counrty and
"Gary has changed a great' toward his fellow man and is
an hour.
Mr. Powers charged his wife
with habitual intoxication and
cruelty.
Mrs. Powers filed a counter-
suit and told the jury yesterday
She said she is ill and linable
to work and that her husband
told her several times after his
release from prison that he
could not love and live with a
sick woman.
"I suffered just as much as
Gary did when he was in pris-
on," she said.
Mr. Powers testified he is now
employed as a test pilot in Cal-
ifornia, and earns about $310,~
a week. t
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