SECOND THOUGHTS ON GARY POWERS - - - -

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100970002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 3, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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e i' urial March 7 begins:
-1:?2 Pilot Fraheis Gail
stirs is not precisely a na-
t nal hero, bit13t should Fes':;
t e entire fta&OKt to`km &' ,,
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a ter an exhaust
t n the t ntral inte'Ui$Q b
ge ncy is. of the opinion tb at l
contract aad his abI1 a is
an Amerksn ."
ThLS is one American tha* j
1is `exercise~in literary ~nbL
s case, the CIA blundered to'
lu rxtent of -M" g the wrong
j on for a job, of extreme
electivity and importance to
his country, such as this one.
),l the other hand, it may
attempting to cover up at
east in part a mistake in the
electing of Powers by with-
olding certain Information.
'his latter choice is certainly
ty. It is, after all a secret
the Americans, hut not too dif
ficult apparently for the Cam
munists to figure out.
The type of American t!,a
(Powers had would not hav
Amerli'ATl was_
JAMES M. CO'Y FER
570 West Drive,
I,curmN'iek,
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 CIA-RDP75-00149R000100970002-6