EISENHOWER U-2 ANXIETY DISCLOSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200530024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 24, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Five years before Francis 'What happe; if ' you're
Gary Powers crashed in the caii?ht?" Rat the CIA always
Soviet Union, 'then-President rc=lied, -It ha rri't happened
Eisenhower expres~ed trisgiv- yet.'
ings about just-such art event ''hr Ihok report, "The 1-de-
involving a U-Z spy plane, ac- Bret History 61, the 15-2," also
cording to sn article in Look asserted thzit Alien W. Dulles
magazine. then CIA director,. inspected
Mr. Eisenhower expressed r. cords of the routine preflight
his anxiety at the ti' - he ap- psychological, examipatinn Mr.
prayed the U-2 program in Powers took just before his
1955, Look Laid. The article Sight,
quoted friends of the ?fnrmer It he (Dulles)'had been the
President as t-Aying Mr. Eisen- afent on the scme, he decided,
hover told hie advi ers'tha:t he would not have sent Pov:-
down, this is going to be on my day,", trip magazine said. I
head." And he added, "The '15i-lies did not reveal the
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