WIFE CRUELER THAN RUSS-- U2 PILOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400090025-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: January 16, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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'Divor'c'e'' Trial Opens:
poST IN I'LL 1'W0oved For Release 1999/09/17: CIA-RDP75-00001
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jfe crueler Than
i-..U2Pilot.
almost two years a wa a
Soviet'prisorter.-
POWERS, whose aborted U2
flight "'aver Russia in ' 3.z9
touched off an international
controversy, is seeking to end
' the only person who ev
jmistreated h '' during the
h' S
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Both Powers, 33, and .his
Jan. 15.- (UP r s The - w~f we, 27, testified to.
!vorce trial of rancl"s Ir d 16 trial will . tae _con-
,Powers opeged here today drilled tomorrow. With testimony by ;the, former 4rrs. Powers has_ filed a
~U2 pilot -that airs wife waa urlter suit in the divorce
er
MRS. POWE1 S' att'ig,rWy,
1 o b e r t Great, gtiestloned
Powers about his patriptism,
asking him at one point if he
had ever voted.
Powers replied he had not
;and didn't even kTip}v whpwas
vice president while he was
tin prison,
6gr
grid nnu'ecer that
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"made me appreciate this
was nil excess.ive 1l er,
?Gary has c.It 1k l(p d a
great deal," sFie esfifie .
"I think he Is Just void ;pf
all feeling now. All he wai'tts
l~ is didn't
didn'tmart?y Gary
rowed 'for 3~ropey," she
said. "I. mar fled for com-
psntoriship, tova- and chil-
dren, but I ,didn't., have an
opportunity for that."
She discloSed.th$,t Rhe twice:
had conceived, c ildven :bii t
both cases -regt1Tted in r ; s-
carria.ges beq uae pf. " a.1 rk
of medical facilities tint le
bitterness out on
.1o?4nr1 hi nhnrv
JAN 16 1963
action, charging Powers failed
to' treat her like an average
Anlei'ican. housewife.
1VtR5. POWERS, weeping
often during the trial, said she
Nos constantly besieged by re-
his. eight-year :;nar'riage to the Central Intelligence Agen-
Mrs" `'Barbara Gays` Pbivers.;cy after her husband's plane
He contends she is an habitual was downed over Russia,
drunk and abla@-d 1 ' She denied she knew her
.
shattered mart aegtto a jirv husband was on any spy as-.
s gnment and charged that
,.. I bk our ,future into his
of. 12 married m n; who will lie "to
decide whether lv~ must pay.ylrnds withnut nil' knowledge
his wife alimony bid make. She charged that her fami-
her a property settIenlent. - . iv had her decla red mentally'
incompetent alter she refltsed'
PO LRS testified that he, to see a psyc.*litj l_st.and said
we r as1~?rrg as 45 days she was adrritfd to i1 n u-
wi hou. a tittetfroin his WI2e gusta hospital for treatm it.
(while in a Russian prison'
~.mp'' `_ j. . SHE SAID hJ Wb ell tier;
husband returned to Ahe;
knit' quite a hit.-, -