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POWERS, FRANCIS GARY

Sources:

WC Vol 16, p. 871; CE 315; CIA 796-348 (2/15/62 NOTE 3rd paragraph from back); Rush to Judgment, Lane, p. 373; Dallas Times Herald, 4/20/70; Operation Overflight, Powers & Curt Gentry; Spy Trader, Craig Whitney, pp. 5-6, 16, 54-79, 84, 135, 144, 154, 161, 199, 201, 245, 259, 400-401, 432n-433n, 435n

Mary's
Comments:

DOB: 8/17/29. POB: Burdine, KY. DOD: 8/1/77. POD: Santa Barbara, CA. Shot down 5/1/60 at Sverdlovsky USSR in U-2. Tried and convicted of spying in Moscow August 1960. LHO write his brother that "Powers seemed like an all-American boy when I saw him in Moscow." (WC Vol 16, p. 871) Released in 1962 in exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. On pages 363-364 of Operation Overflight, he blames Oswald for giving the Russians the ability to "shoot the U-2 down." Killed in crash of helicopter.

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