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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100034-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 5, 1950
• Content Type: OPEN

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(ADVANCE) NEW .YORK, MAY 5 (AP)-THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
ADVANCE 6:30 M. EST (CORREST) TODAY
IN A SECRET CEREMONY HAS AWARDED A MEDAL TO FRANCIS GARY POWERS,
THE U2 PILOT WHOSE CRASH DEEP INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION "SHOOK THE
KHRUSHCHEV." THE STORY ATISIMED OHA
'-CONTACT CONTACT BETWEEN PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND THEN SOVIET PREMIER
k,.- LAST SATURDAY "CHILLED EAST-WEST RELATIONS AND ENDED ANY MEANINGFUL
WORLD--ANi) CAUSED A GOOD DEAL OF ANGUISH TO THE CIA," THE NEW YORK
HERALD TRIBUNE SAID TODAY. I
A WASHINGTON DISPATCH NOTED THAT THE CRASH FIVE YEARS AGO
i= AT. THE PARIS CONFERENCE THAT PHOTO RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS OVER
fl PARIS COLLAPSED IN THE WAKE OF THE U2 UPROAR. EISENHOWER SAID
KHRUSHCHEV." THE STORY ALSO NOTED THAT THE SUMMIT MEETING IN
AIRCRAFT CORP., MANUFACTURER OF THE U2, RECEIVED THE MEDAL IN A
CEREMONY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AT THE CIA'S?HEADQUARTERS IN LANGLEY,
WHO OSTENSIBLY WAS A TEST PILOT FOR THE LOCKHEED
STORMED OUT OF THE MEETING.
THE (C');?YRIGHT STORY ALSO SAID IN PART:
:RUSSIA HA!) BEEN STOPPED AND WOULD NOT BE RESUMED.- BUT KHRUSHCHEiI.,.
I'.SU;PPOSED TO TELL ANYBODY ABOUT IT.
,VA. HE ACTUALLY HAD BEEN A $30,000-A-YEAR PILOT FOR THE CIA.
P-OWERS, NOW 35, IS NOT SUPPOSED TO WEAR THE MEDAL. AND IS NOT
TH9 AWARD, HE REPLIED: NO COMMENT AT ALL.. HE'S A FORMER EMPLOYE.
16;- :AWARDED AT.A CEREMONY ATTENDED BY SEVERAL TOP OFFICIALS.
IT WAS .RELIABLY LEARNED, -HOWEVER, THAT THE SECRET MEDAL WAS'
WE, DON'T COMMENT ON FORER EMPLOYES.
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WHY THE CIA WANTED TO BESTOW AN AWARD ON ITS MOST FAMOUS EMPLOYE--ON
THERE WERE AT LEAST TWO MYSTERIES SURROUNDING THE MEDAL: FIRST,
WHO BROUGHT THE AGENCY UNDER THE PUBLIC SCRUTINY WHICH IT ALWAYS.
TRIES TO AVOID;- SECOND, WHY THE CIA WAITED FIVE YEARS.
IT IS KNOWN THAT PLANS FOR THE CEREMONY AND- MEDAL WERE MADE
--:PRIOR TO THE DEPARTURE OF JOHN A. MCCONE AS CIA DIRECTOR. PRESIDENT
JOHNSON SWORE IN ADM. WILLIAM RABORN AS THE NEW CIA DIRECTOR LAST
THE GENERAL DID NOT DISCLOSE--AND HE SAID.ABEL. HAD. RECEI.VED'HIGH
THE GENERAL SAID ABEL IS NOW LIVING UNDER HIS REAL NAME--WHICH
MOSCOW ABOUT SOVIET ESPIONAGE WORK DURING WORLD WAR II, SINGLED
OUT ABEL AS AN OUTSTANDING SOVIET INTELLIGENCE AGENT.
A SOVIET SECURITY FORCES GENERAL, DURING A TELEVISION TALK.IN
ARRESTED .IN NEW YORK IN 1957.
ABEL WAS ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE.FOR THE SOVIET UNION WHEN HE WAS
LAST NIGHT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, SOVIET OFFICIALDOM ADMITTED THAT.:
SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK CITY TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON.
POWERS, CAPTURED BY THE SOVIETS, WAS TRADED TO THIS COUNTRY IN
1962 FOR THE SOVIET MASTER SPY, COL. RUDOLF ABEL, WHO HAD BEEN
WEDNESDAY.
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