K AND U.S. POLITICS MILLIONAIRE POWERS? AIRBORNE ALERT BEGINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060037-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: June 11, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

I .1 1960,
Approved For Release -5MI l :
: i.. #rs"""" '?" r" .* .. ?^~?- .i ` ` AGENT: We wed `pretty sdigcouragixl b y ,Tthe Div
no more V-2' flights., U-2, is old.stuff-fabe9nic, re[af oel
$fQs'et perhape.some,da . vulnerable to ? missiles, and then' y th
Russians' thno, LLnot'yet by any means. Our Nike`
of ? . -.
wand, well above1,100b0, feet,eThe commies haven't.;
anything approaching thin. An4 ?rememjier: thanks to the'
r4Sl
U-2, at this moment we ctsn pinpoint every grade-cro.tsing
in the Soviet onion. And ire- have sowetlling that'll. elilace .
,
the U2- and J don't mean
we'll have: to wait for Tiros..
GUEST: Will U-3,bo Powers-proof?
AGENT I :, You bet Cane of the things that'ntakes us think:
Ptiwers must have defected I. that the U-2 ebekpit ban 't be
opened manually from the inside. The only way the pilot.
ecEq Jutinp out is by ptttihittg the ejection button which also
sets to trigger for blowing the plane up. Otkarwise, the
pilot has to be 14l putt L mm the outside. But'now we know
Heat's not eenough. 1i'the'future; our plants will be trig-
gered to explode satoinatictelly when they fall below a cer?
fain alfitude-ex ept when they are being homed in to the
ptearrynged landing spot. .
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V.n.ct,rc~ E:erraet. P.iscal. 1.. Auekly
R. Intelligence Officer. (of in a -corner, as a
tie Washington cocktail party) : Powers? No, he
wasn't. We're pouvincod he wasn't a double agent
in the strict sense of the tenor
GUEt;T: What do you mean?
AGENT: Wet feel sure he hasn't been working. for .}
'Soviet' union sight along., But we do,think he sold out-in.
connection with that particular flight. I know Powers, inti-
rnately-l've knows him fore five years. I' feel morally sure
he was not a? double agent,- but we think that, at the end,
he went ,elver voluntarily But .we had to take.our
chances, and we did. We figured froru, the beginning of the
U-2-- 209 flinhts ago-that the odds were we'd be caught
o l' i,fler six months. Instead itwciit for fears: We
were, pushing our luck.
AGk.NT: ?honey. ' W b figure they offered hint a boil - a_ . s ; r ~" T' 1 e e
million -dollars or something like that. (We tried-the sathel a
a
k~4
thing in Korea, you remember.) Nn was
robabl
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p
y
n
bad cnloticnal state--and even must have thought he'd r
Did he nce#d the mol,cy, or was he just out for'
%
a capital gain?
AGENT (Ian ghing) : No_._ y1,11 Wouldn't think iEe'd need
tl,r' iot'ney. We were paviug flint $2. 500, per month and a
bonus per Clihht 01 $31J,0CM)I I lipid. he rust have averaged
an inc wne over the past two.years of $f75,O0f),- -. -
Approved For Release. 199.9/001;'7.: 'CIA-RDP75-00001 ROfl0400050037-8
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