FAITH IN BROTHER KEPT DESPITE SPYING CHARGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400060062-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: May 15, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Faith in Brother Kept Despite Spying Charge \
Her faith in her brother un? the things they're saying about pie are going to believe it, and orders to tell, they'd have to
impaired by revelations ;of h jFrank now." what they say isn't true." (take it from him."
deed, the sister of acdusid sn ".No Official Word Like her four sisters and ,I,
"I don't know, r -just dan. ver ntt ia, s capture and her brother's stated job as a[Moscow, "Frank looks'awfully
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py Lockheed weather reconnais-{tired, not like he ordinarily
!know," Jessica Hileman said. `only what I hear on the radio. sance pilot. looks."
"I just won't,beleve it. until The State Department hasn't He was hand-picked for the "He is very brave. I don't
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,told us anything."::. i.1 sh,& -beams..; He flew believe it was suicide kit he
lives at A e line, glass-j
brough~ a radio this higher tkan anyone has ever'1tgd. His superiors wouldn't
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To her, her only brother has ' n m e
they let me have it on all day. up. You cant imagine." alone does Mrs. Hileman think
always been "brave . . . ad- Oh, I want to know so badly." Later, she could not believe her brother could have been
venturous ... s`o very good ... pw: !'I feel sort of self-conscious I the durable-he Soviet report that her spy: "I would have too, if
can take a lot.'' because of the things they say ,brother had confessed to be- d I'd been qualified. I'm so
"But I just can't believe half ..on the radio. I'm afraid peo? ing a sR>v! "ff he didn't have proud of him."
JESSICA. HILEMAN
. .. sister of Powers
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