POWERS' KIN TELL FAITH IN RED LAWYER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300270007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 16, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitiz, d - Approved For Release
Hold , onfert ee
on Pilot's Trial
CPYRGHT
CHARGE GON
United Slate,
Russians may have some-
thing to hide In V.4
once. Ster}+ be p>ige'i
.-
MOSCOW, Aug.- 15 L
he family of U-2 Pilot Fr n
?is Gary Powers met his Rua-.
ian lawyer for th791h 'thbit''.
fonday and eztiseageo MUM,"'
idencg that bt s 0ntf
nd will do? hbeats to help-1
1
he accused flyer., o av e r s,1
oes on trial ~ Wedi.pr on.
spionage charges. ,..
? "The confesncc 164th,
efense attaeaey 0 tips' most'
sefnl an, we- hsh!'wo
once he %Vll do all poaibi
o help out son," 'sajd thb;
liver W. Power's in a brief
tatement
As they emerged from the'
cinference In a building 1ni
side street half a mile from
he Kremlin, the party wash
et -by about 300 Russian'
ttracted by,the crowd oft
vaiting correspondents. The,
:questions about what was
iscusse but were told noth-
"ng. I
Must on Some Points - c
Alexander W. Parker of.
Richmond, Va., an attorney,,'
!who' accompanied the pilot's
wife, Mrs, Barbara Powers,;
called the, meeting with the
Russian attorney, Mikhail;
Mich Grit-iov, ."highly satis
factory."
But after a defense strat-
egy conference with Grlniov
that 1aUeciA A
hour, Pa {
us s the trial itself or the'
FOIAb3b
: CIA-R
1 iqi
his (Griniov's] sincerify; Ktapiis
-
is apparent ability, and m lY hopes
b,; trlel r" .
rankness. We wete favors favorably is po b 1 y. -U app
esire to cooperate. He has .a;pe zial lea for clew
e is going to give the beat q
e has got.
"This feeling. is .general''
ong all the (Virginia,] at.
Has Busy Record ,fe
Grinlov is a kindly faced
ow-cropped gray hair, and,,,,
tiny beard. ' He is said to ik
Grinioy was one of the Rup.
n pro;yecutors at the Nuern.
rg trials. of naal leaders
eatlt" or imprisoned:
I"-
as Powers' chief prosecutor, .
man?A. Rudenko.
Griniov delayed the meet.
C with the family for more
eeded time to rest after a
Barbarj was accompanied
t irk r and another attor-
y lik 114'.1., Rogeri of ,,
The flyers' parents were
ceompaaied by Carl A. Me.''
Arranged by lutourist
The appointment with'
rlniov was arranged by V.i,
bkin, head' of the Apieh$
it section of Intourist, tbsl~l,.
ffkial Russian tourist t.
gency. The appointment \i
at because the Virginia\t
wyers are here in an unof?
icial capacity and will a
ndition of Powers. Grlniov laid Powers' `trial only
ld them he had just coine:lPedstOM '
om a long morning confer. Parker, a for{ner president
Parker told a press confer. ton' Itold;;apt fs. #Aaad
ce: al