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i \ : DeLorch to Mohr Memo Re: RUDOLPH IVANOVICH ABEL , what would hanpen concerning the Abel-Powers exchange. The wire serviceldid not } geo the tip until shortly before 2:30 a.m. today at which time Salinger was to make * ; . t go <a » the announcement. = Ct aid the reason the "Post" got the "jump" on other newsmen ° ¢ { {5 because the President himself last night tcld Philip Grcham of the "Washington pee 2 D | Dost," Bill Lawrence and Tom Ross of the "Chicago Sun Times, " who attended the | party, that the Abel-Powers exchange would take place at 2:30 a. m. } _ said UPI determined that the President told Graham shortly before 12 midnight that the exchange would take place. Washington newsmen are & very miffed about this, and think the President had no business making such comment = I to Grain and others at the party. There was considerable drinking going on. It i was guite ax affair. The Director can be assured that in the 35 or 40 calls Wick has Hu eee between eazly this morning and now we have maintained a strict "no comment. " ; . \ It has been determined that nevsmen may put a surveillance on “fers, Francis Gary Powers, wife of the U-2 pilot in the hopes of locating Powers b BES A immense cibelnesven EN ie Md Luni el ER I