(Classified) INTEREST IN POWERS' STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400140011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 11, 1962
• Content Type: MFR

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11. May 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: McGraw-Hill Interest in Powers' Story
I. Mr. Morrie Helitzer of McGraw-Hill called on 10 May,
saying Powers and his attorney, Mr. Williamson from Steptoe &
Johnson, were coming to see him Friday afternoon, 11 May, and
he would like to talk to me first. I saw Mr. Helitzer in his office
in the National Press Building on Thursday afternoon, 10 May.
He said he would merely like my personal views as to whether
there was much new that could be offered by Powers which would
not be subject to security restrictions so they could make some
judgment as to whether they should make an offer to Powers.
I said it was my view that not a great deal would be given by
Powers `that haad not already come out in the press. He. Powers,
is well aware of the' security limitations and is also the type of
person who would tell .his story exactly as he saw it without
speculation or embellishment. I said there was little about the
flight itself which was classified, but all of this had been in the
press and I felt that Powers would tell the story again exactly as
he_told it before. Mr. Helitzer said there was still some mystery
about what happened when he came down, and I said I was quite.
sure that so far-as Powers was concerned he would merely tell what
he experienced and no more. I said there were some details of his
stay in-prison-that had not yet been published which did not involve
any security problems but they were not very dramatic and the
main interest lay in the fact that he was not badly treated.
2. Mr. Helitzer asked about Powers' wife, and I merely
said that I felt in all probability Powers would not want to discuss
his private life publicly.
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3. I said on the whole I felt there was not a great deal
new or dramatic to be obtained from Powers himself.
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
cc: Asst to DCI (Col. Grogan)
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