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. to, , , ae - s. a Powers will confess not only to his May lst flight over the center of the Soviet Union, but to a dozen others, including the dropping of arms and agents inside Russia by parachute. "This should make the Powers trial the biggest propaganda show ever Staged behind the Iron Curtain. "Dulles has told Eisenhower that he would not be surprised if Powers personally implicated the President himself and then announced dramaticall: that he has decided to remain in Russia and work for peace. "It is because brainwashing is so easy in these days of modern tech- niques and so-called truth serums that the State Department has been press ing for the return of the two fliers captured when the RB-47 was picked up north of Russia. They too might crack and be made the victims of a show- case trial. "Note: Speculation that Powers might have been approached by Russian agents prior to leaving Turkey and succumbed to being a double agent is discounted in the Pentagon." . The fact still remains that within the State Department and the CIA and among mature-minded journalists there are many unpublished suspicions concerning the U-2 incident. As one journalist said: "The worst crime in espionage is to get caught, and the next worst crime is to admit anything." | Just as this went to press a new dispatch out of Washington revealed that letters written by Powers to his mother and wife contained state- . ments which seemed to be very inconsistent and confusing. One commenta- tor goes so far as to say that they contradict the truth, It must be remembered that Mr. Powers was paid $2500.00 a month for his job. He took it with the full knowledge that it-would be dangerous and that under no circumstance was he to permit himself to (Over) og