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Fairfax County Officials Consider Cold War Museum
May 6, 2007 - 3:24pm

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LORTON, Va. (AP) - Fairfax County officials are moving ahead with plans to build a museum dedicated to the Cold War on the site of the former Lorton Prison complex.

The parcel of land has Cold War ties; it once housed 24 surface-to-air missiles positioned to ward off a Soviet nuclear attack. In the early ‘70s, it was converted for prison use _ with a kitchen and dining hall for female inmates.

The prison closed in 2001 and, a year later, was deeded to Fairfax County.

County officials are now negotiating with Gary Powers, the museum’s founder and director, over leasing details. The county’s Park Authority hopes to reach a preliminary agreement with the Cold War Museum’s director by the year’s end.

Powers is developing the museum in memory of his father, Francis Gary Powers, a pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union. The pilot was captured and imprisoned after he parachuted from the plane, but the Soviets allowed him to return to the United States in 1962 in exchange for one of their captured agents.

The elder Powers died in 1977. He had been piloting a TV traffic helicopter that crashed.”