SUICIDE WAS NOT IN THE BOND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080151-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 151
• Publication Date: March 8, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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examination of the evidence that even thouglzhe might he "lived up to the terms of his needle for use if threatened with
employment and instructions. torture. he Senate Armed
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Powers was under questioning in Services Committee ended
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a Soviet prison and after his state- most pilot his $ iet answering
ment in the. trial that followed, V-2 p committee.
'there were suggestions that he had of questidonS btless- efore the ed with the'
"let down" the;; United States in _ Though a rObably could
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