Brisbane Lawyer News
US spy jailed for 10 years
Monday August 24, 2009
Barbara Powers, 29, wife of the downed U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, saw her husband for 75 minutes at the Soviet Supreme Court after he had been jailed for 10 years for spying. Mikhail Grintov, the Russian lawyer who defended Powers, said it would be the last visit permitted before Powers, pictured, began his sentence.