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CARDINAL'S RESIDENCE
452 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK 22 
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February 22, 1962

Dear Mr. Powers:

With the millions of your fellow citizens and other millions from other countries, I rejoice that you have been given your freedom and have been permitted to return to the States.

I have a special word of thanks to you for your statement during the trial that I was not interested in military bases, but only in military personnel.

I pray Almighty God to bless you and hope some time we have an occasion to meet again.  

With kind regards, I am,

Very sincerely yours,
[[signed]] F. Cardinal Spellman [[\signed]]
Archbishop of New York

Mr. Francis Gary Powers
Milledgeville
Georgia