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| pane tRev: 6-f-6.7 t . eee @ - ° Wie ea. é (J . Tolson anny Hk rea “Tadze_informal elmont . . Ps Thave been “going or for que a __" Mohr. long time,” he said. “This nh — | could have happened much Callahan ———_ 9 Precet. es i oud ae bee Conrad . n boo. , oe seer too “many conclusions _ DeLoach . , about the success of these Evans ; . t ions at this particular Malone’ : glmoment.” ; - Gere en ate an Ss i fl The political community here Rosen —_—— : mone 1 Hreceived the news of ‘Mr. Sullivan ae ae ' _ ' HPowers’ return from a Soviet T ae ’ PF . i Hjatl with mixed emdtions, in- avel Full U-2 Story |=" rae n : ons ©: Pp: : tome of the implications. ~ Tele Room __. . . 0 i The expressions were im- Ingram . , put Gandy “A atreetside sampling of opinion on Francis | : Gary Powers—first page, second section, THE PROBE _jtmo»-not-ke composed. of cst officials, but tt wil ete q ‘By Rowland Evans Jr. ner, aiccone. While the board A Sto¥ Correspondent , “ ” ae jis doing its “interrogation” Mr.} =. WASHINGTON. f'Powers will be beyond the reach The Senate Foreign Rela-f'of any and ali Congressional gz {itlons Committee moved swiftly § committees. In fact, whether|; a ( yesterday into the case of U-2—-he will ever be permitted to ‘May, 1960, to quote Sen . Other Senators who felt the ‘celebrated incident of the U-2 feflected badly on the United States, said privately they ‘hoped that after the govern- ment finished its “de-briefing” of the returned pilot the case would elose itself out. This seemed most unlikely. Stak Out Claim Some members of the Senate! pilot Francis Powers, 4) BPpear before Congress is 8 whose ise whereabouts and|!Mshly debatable question. = precise whereae i The answer could depend on a : future plans are still cloaked in Armed Services Committee al- tantalizing secrecy. what the board of inquiry! ready were demanding that, g ¥ learns, just as the answer to The acting chairman of the er t0 50|, mr. Powers be brought before Senate panel, Sen. John Spark- , that panel for questioning. man, D., Als., wrote Secretary Similar requests by other com Of Btate Dean Rusk that thef'back pay of $2,500 a month mittees who may want % st committee wants “a full report, The government's legal obliga-} pected. But whether any of on the interrogation” of Mr. tion to make good the back pay| ithese will be successful is Powers ‘i won't be established until after purely speculative at this time. conducted by a special board to|\: . be named by John A. McCone, the Foreign Relations Commit- tor of the Centra? Intelli-' vee ‘would seem % ea cared out a claim jurisdiction ence Agency, within the-neat Mr. Powers is described as er legislative Jes in the ew days. The board may or, being in excellent condition. or ane: The inquiry is not expected to ease, . ornamit t take very long, once it starts. This was the ¢ vee tha Rusk Discounts Importance ‘conducted a thorough probe of . Mr. Rusk, meanwhile, dis- the whole U-2 affair in the | Crtie of 1960. : counted the diplomatic impor- ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED tance of ‘the return of wid (EL Criticism that the exchange HEREIN IS CLASSE patesyliesB ‘of Mr. Powers for Soviet Col. Rudolf Xx. Abel, the “master” espionage agent, left the U. 8. with the short end of the stick js being countered by word that . Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, and John McCone, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, were unanimous in rec- “- . I would not draw any conclusions from this... with respect to questions like Berlin or Southeast Asia,” he said in a radio interview. The Secretary =< moving “unnecessary irrita- tions” between the United States and the Soviet Union has some advantages, it does not of itself go.“‘very far in the issues that divide the Commu- ‘nist and the free worlds.” : | And as for the timing of the dramatic_exchange, the-Secs-|- tary was clearly unexcited. RE VNR TRO eX 10T so far there has been little overt) criticism of the Kennedy ad- ministration on this score. No Pian to Call Powers Gen. Sparkman, who wrote committee- chairman. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D., Ark., ce te etme me came ne ee ee ree ee rere Howard W. Cannon, D., Nev.. ommending the exchange. But: Mr. Rusk in the absence of|* (08 -E TZ bow 11 FEB 16 1962. Fens FEES 2 Suge ia AV Pre | a | The Washington Post and - Times Herald mw The Washington Daily News The Evening Star — I New York Herald Tribune S New York Journal-American _* New York Mirror , New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader “6S Wail Street Journal: 2 FEB. 96x) 4 -