ONE HOPEFUL FACTOR FOR DETROITERS PARENTS FEAR FOR 2D U-2 PILOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390038-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 15, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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P FUL .PACTO.R FOR DET 1f
By Bernard Mullins turous, the'Job of waiting end
worrying Is "no fun! "
Inc Detroit parents ? of a .
U-l pilot, who Is a close Capt. Charles B. Stratton,
31, t'he. son of Mr. and era.
friend of Francis Powrcrs.i',Inhn ?Stratton.'of 2605 Elm.
Russian-held spy-plane pilot
! hurst
is the pilot of a U-2
,
,
said Saturday. ? reconnaissance jot atatlbneddent 01 the ?1.nited 'Statfp.
"We Would rather he goat the ? Strategic Air Com?l Iiu1thf' ,'ort?y is %V11 ttler+e.
back to his job ag'a paperboy. mind Base in Del Rio, Tex. At tar as 'we know, Mit.
p
Min become a '-py pilot.'' } The fad that their son- ~.Strter said, "he has?fhoWn
I alt over every ceatntry Wtbe
Althmtgh the job of a Ceu?.an air force U-2 pjlot instead world eieept Russia. But
traf?tntelligen~'e Agency pilot; of a C].\ flier is some cam sometimes I wMtder." - +
is lucrati)e,androar'se.?rn to,fort,'but not a great deal. in tvpicttl mother fa9ldgp
be ctamorqus and adven-j "Sofnt~tintes, from 'hip let- Mrs. 'Stratton worries. d
a ber0i'
"I o totphir
or his WZfe, but we were in {
the sore squadron at Turer
,
(Tujzl+pi^, Mr" Force Base, Al-
Jany.Ga)..
"IT'S NO' secret now that
I'm Qytin.g .V-2s,' but we only
-
h. f
atq ... e.t eor. air
to what t.J radio 'an$ news-t
'papers. lla`ve. already. said'
( nut -the Powers case):"
'I iJel so sorry for his'
(Po
-s') mothe
`tM
St
t
w
r
rs
-
ra
,.ton said. "When I saw her`.
picture In fire paper I ;cried.t.
And think of his poor wife." +
The elder. Stratton, 51,
`
salt
MY:-'heart really goes ' out I
to his parents and wife.. It
may sound selfish, but rd,
rather it be her, than us.
"She could ' cry on tnyt
shoulder dnytime." ?
Of the spy plane incident,
the Strattons agreed:
"The. government. 'should
havf told the straight storyi
fist:'"a ~ ? . , ,
"It has to go on." the?
senior Stratton said. "It's just;
too bad that we got caJgttr
at it.' t ,.
CAPT, STRATTON' was air
hiarold., 28, now an enganeer~'`
,and gbvernntent rocket ex?i
pert. I. -
Cattt> -Stratton Is inarriedt '
to the former Ann 'ova, also,
of Detroit, They have two j'
dons, John Charles, 5, and,',.,'
The Strattons were. a