NO CONTRACT BREACH BY POWERS IS FOUND BY U.S. INQUIRY SO FAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600390003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 22, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
Present Reports on
Headed by Prettyman-.-
$50,000 Pay at Stake
Ir warp 01 m9uU7 heads
by S,. ,Barrett Prettyman. a to
Gary PowetV fult'liled his co
tract with the Central Intelli
gence Agency and is entitl
to about $50,000 In back pay.
this today, said that so fa
U-8 pilot had failed to comply
with the secret contract. He
said he would make "a more
final judgment" at his news
conference next week.
n* 8Peci&1 of "outstanding citizens consisting
complete Its inquiry by the mid-
dle of next week and Mr. Pow-
ers then WIl be available to
Con as and the press for
!questioning, Mr. Kennedy
added.
"Mr. Powers has been co-
operating fully," the President
remarked.
The pilot of the high.attitude
reconnaissance plane, downed
In the Soviet Union May 1,
1880, tour been under questions.
ing by Federal intelligence
agents and. PretuEably. by the
CPYRGHT
udge E. Barre+ t Prett~naa
ttyman board at an undis,
sed site since his return to
In border for a Soviet es-
who had been convicted,
r. Powers testified at his'
th, part of which was to bet
9mletlaa i~-t,C>u,oottt
!It could be deprlve4;o~! a31}ol?!
f na he had violated big
Mt C
Speculation on Tesini
There has beep ipgnlation .
r whether the contract called
to destroy tbyr' plgy d asatL~ifdawned'
in Soviet lo to avotdl
ca Lure at an goats. Questions
twf~ether be wsq . b ogQ the
~m ,ch~as he did abbpt 10- job
pooledthat no ?Grlgdnal charg,esI
tn4iIry. according to a State
th he volunt -ta?ke ,, ?
Ile- etector testy was, no
wo d on whether A&& a test
;act ally, had been administered.
Pa era bas ' told United States
;Int Ugoace agents, substantial.
1y a same story, .be, gave at
the Moscow tri Little addl-
tio a! knowledge hard been ob.
tai ed on the crucial question o
.ho the Lockheed-!Milli U.2 was
bro ht down 1.800 Miles tnside
the viet Union.
Soviet Repsr$ Deabted
tion Soviet repoak i .that the
88Ap0 feet I glde?of
He testified' that Ida pta~1~
beaf after a ,hoUowL
sounding explosion" acoona+,
panled by an orange-colored
flash behind him.
President Kennedy, at hi}l
news conference did not iden'r
tify other members of. thf
Prettyman board or say
many there were (questioni'
Page 10.) White fou term declined ' to ? do s6 ~^c
Judge Prettyman retired Oct..
or the District; of Columb
e has taken several judiclaj
gnments In retirement. Inf
dition, as head of a Presi:?.
ential studyy: ggrowp called the.
dtninistraUveConference, he
ubmitted a number of recotn.
endations last December to.
form the procedures of Fed.
t'Lregulatory agencles.
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