PILOT'S FATHER HOPES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060080-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: May 7, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK T1M1:. MAY 'r 113bU
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-E~d&001
' YILOT'S FATHER HOPES'
rays He `Can't Give Up' on
Son Downed by Russians
Special to Tlie New York Times.
NORTON, Va., May 6-11
can't give up hope."
These were the words today
?[ the father of Francis G..
Powers, 30-year-old test pilot
,believed shot down in a weather)
research plane over the Soviet
Union last Sunday. Oliver W.!
Powers, 55, sought to hold back
:tears and said:
"I know there isn't much,
hope, but I have to hold on to,
some. In the tit years he has
been flying, most of it has been
alone. Only a few times hays
there been anybody else in his
plane."
The family learned of the
pilot's disappearance for a rep-
resentative of Lockheed, who
visited their home at Mill Creek,
ten miles from Norton near the
Kentucky line.
"The boy's mother is taking
.tihs pretty hard," Mr. Powers
.said. She has been sick four
years. She heard all about this
on the radio. We couldn't keep
it from here." A daughter said
Mrs. Powers was suffering from,
a heart ailment. The family saw;
the pilot last in November.
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400060080-0