Powers Again

On again, off again, on again. Francis Powers has been reinstated in the baseball hall of fame and the good graces of the CIA. Twenty months ago, Powers was billed as the strike-out king; landing alive and intact among gentle Russian captors, he had failed to use the suicide needle so generously provided by the CIA.

Now the CIA, in its precedent-breaking report to the public on its findings, says that spy-pilots were under instructions to "surrender without resistance and adopt a cooperative attitude toward their captors."

What are we to make of this?