U.S. JUDGE HEADS SECRET PROBE OF U-2 PILOT POWERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600390004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NSPR

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DOPYRGHT
Il:
e~ret Probe of
U-2 pilot Powers
WASIIINGTC tT, Feb. 22 (UPI).--Somewhere--th
:11?e is a secret i'An 'I:lpr( ccdented, formal inquiry i
'.Witty; on today into ih+! story of U-2 pilot Francis Gar
P( w(,rs. ,.. -.
The panel is 11+'.uied liv pnN failure to f ,:f It ha cOn
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17:e ('I1o.ce of :l, i19:' Ir.- Its
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r'r8 red to reflect all Ad:;,,,, ,??;;eI seemed a sill, o
1:-A l loll e f f o ! +, tc gl. '
,fficial U. S. report t n 1'm'.
""rArrr is, as You know." \(r
`le highest Siallio ('f h c?nnr'(Ii said, "a board of In-
ality and :ud1clal ?c.!cd'h;!' r1.+ , Irhior h is rxaulining
The Powcrc. rase h.t. +.+i??rt
ksuea ranging from she 'r?tlwr Mr. Powers completed
i'. (ontracl. That board
tion of a man and '.vlr.(I hi' I
under leadership of .fudge
hack pay should be. to
?
t
, Ptt~ man and represents out-
securils nt a ,ration. Il a rllrn! ,,nding citizens."
of Soviet weapons dev?topme' I
and the degree to S+lieh I j 1'''-1>Or!,rrg had not known
inleiligeoce c}'ai,?roa 4&Y 11,r,(? 0-ta,. Elijah Barrett Prettvnlan
b!en compromised. -0, 1^rentiy retired from the
WILL RE t'LI':ARf311 Ii.., S. Court of Appeals for the
Dis'ii t of Columbia and z
The pone1 1 1 was Sic ientlylju:ict, of national reputation
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t ?:11. ](?$p is-
xtlr;c In a %%-By whiC?i would
reduce as much ac po.,sthle
Iingering doubts clmtng the
AnlerIcaii pttbite a.lli SUaSC-
Queni. rumors a.nd ice ~.mula-
no ne.
All a;gn. so far indiee,te that
Powers h1111Self '5li! t1!i CleaT'ed
wa.K iri the case, and had no,
known much more, on the iec.
Ord, t11an the fact that as In-
Quirv was going on.
Pumprd for information or:
what was meant by ,?n