FRANCIS GARY POWERS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05891964
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-01678
• Publication Date: August 4, 1977

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4 August 1977
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MEMORANDUM FOR: John F. Blake
Acting Deputy Director of
Central Intelligence
FROM
Associate General Counsel
SUBJECT : Francis Gary Powers
1. A trust was established with $175,000 on 27 October 1971,
which was to provide Mr. Powers with $8,750 per annum. This trust
was established in lieu of Powers' having been reinstated on active
duty in the Air Force. When the trust was established, Mr. Powers
signed a release and discharge. Included in that release are the essential
elements of a secrecy agreement, to keep forever secret any information
relating to the trust agreement and all other classified infacmation gained
by virtue of Mr. Powers' association with the U.S. Government. The
release states specifically that any disclosure of classified information
could result in the revocation of the trust with the reversion of the monies
in the trust to the grantor.
2. The general terms of the trust agreement are that upon Gary
Powers' death the income will be paid to his wife unless they are legally
separated or estranged. Upon his wife's death, payments shall be made
to the issue of Francis Gary Powers.
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3. Originally, the trustee was a Los Angeles lawyer by the name
of was subsequently appointed a judge
in a Los Angeles County court and the Agency agreed that a corporate
trustee would be substituted for On 11 October 1974 the
CIA General Counsel wrote to
setting forth the relation-
ship of the Bank as trustee for the CIA.
4. Please comment on the following:
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(1) I think we should contact the trustee and present him
9" with written notification of the death of Gary Powers and of the
change in beneficiary. This would normally require a death
certificate and is in accordance with the terms of the trust agree-
ment.
(3) I think we should also discuss with Mr. Powers attorney
how we might enforce the secrecy agreement with Mrs. Powers
since she did not sign the release.
(4) What do you think about an official Agency representation
at the Powers funeral which is now scheduled for Arlington Cemetery?
5. I have talked with Major General Harold R. Vague, Air Force
Judge Advocate. (He participated with John Warner in meeting the attorney
in California.) General Vague has no objections to our proceeding with the
above actions. General Vague has cleared the following responses with the
Air Force Vice Chief of Staff: The only Air Force participation in the funeral
will be the Honor Guard at Arlington Cemetery. No high ranking Air Force
personnel will attend. The Air Force has no objection to any CIA represen-
tation at the funeral.
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