Canon GP-E2 compass bearing information in LR DNG

I received a Canon GP-E2 yesterday, and used it on my Canon 5D Mark III. It encodes GPS coordinates and compass bearing directly in RAW files.
I shoot in RAW, and import the RAW files into Lightroom 4.1 using the "copy as DNG" option.
After importing my test shots into LR, the GPS coordinate data showed up as expected in the EXIF metadata, as did the altitude. However, I do not see any indication of the compass bearing.
When I use the Canon utility software that came with the GP-E2, it does display compass orientation on its map display, so bearing is obviously being stored in the RAW file.
My guess is that Adobe's DNG specification has no tag or field for bearing yet.
If anyone has any greater knowledge or understanding about this, I'd appreciate learning more.
I'd also like to know if Adobe has plans to update DNG to capture this information.

The GPS image direction and reference are in the EXIF data in the 5DM3 raw files and also in the .dng files I have from my 5DM3/GP-E2 combo.  I performed the CR2 to DNG conversion using Lightroom 4.1.
Not all EXIF editors/viewers are updated to show the GPS Img Direction Ref and GPS Img Direction fields. 
Phil Harvey's exiftool 8.89 is one that does show the data, if present, when reading .dng files.  At this time Lightroom apparently does not.

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