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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200410020-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 7, 1962
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP75-001
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MAY 79 1962
NEW BRITAIN, CONN.9 MAY 7 (AP)-MRS. MARY DOWNEY WILL LEAVE FOR
RED CHINA FRIDAY TO VISIT HER SON WHO HAS BEEN IN PRISON THERE SINCE
1952.
HER SON9 JOHN,, 32, WAS CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE AND SENTENCED TO
LIFE IMPRISONMENT AFTER THE O.S. AIR FORCE PLANE IN WHICH HE WAS A
PASSENGER CRASH8D WHILE EN ROUTE FROM JAPAN TO KOREA, DOWNEY WAS A
J.S. ARMY CIVILIAN EMPLOYE AT THE TIME.
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MRS. DOWNEY SAID SHE HAS A TWO-WEEK VISA FOR RED CHINA. SHE WIL
MAKE THE TRIP TO PEIPING WITH ANOTHER SON, WILLIAM, 30.
IT WILL BE MRS. DOWNEY'S THIRD VISIT AND WILLIAM'S SECOND.
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Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP75-00149R000200410020-6