POWERS FLIES U-2 AGAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100130007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 12, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN

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Powers Flies U-2 Again
Soviet missile buildup in Cuba.
Francis Ga? whose A J4 ihwAiwned'fa' Rrasia:fn19601 J "Aon !~ engi-
neering test pilot for t)e Lockheed,Cali%in9a Co., in local.test flights out
of BurbanR. ICentral trttelligence'Agency 4411 4tdt hic job' there
Cuban newspapers printed photos ,4 w they said was the wreckage of the U-2
flown by Maj. Rudolf Anderson, Jr. Cirlba ,slrit]'t 'Strategic Air Command U-2 was
"shot down by our.antipircraft forces on, O 27, Defense Deft., still, refused late
last week to comma t171 ,p t11at. Cuba. said' e~I~:Z "can glide with tnotors''sh u off
for nine hours. 'These spy planes are ejuipped with'-15 infrared: camerss specially
designed for espionage work"
SAC Commander Gen. Thomas S. Power. *ttended .Maj Anderso 's-, funeral of
Greenville, S. C., last week and identified Anderson and Maj. Richard, S.;isieyser as they,
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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000100130007-3