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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370075-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: April 9, 1963
• Content Type: TRANS

Approved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP
UNITED PR1 38
INTERNATIONAL
UPI,-14
( AMERIGNB )
APRIL 9, 1963
HAVANA-NEW YORK ATTORNEY JAMBS B. DONOVAN A UNCED TODAY HE HAD ARRANUED.
THE RELEASE OF NINE AMERICAN SKINDIVERS HELD BY THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT SINN F7 B RY.
DONOVAN SAID HE WOULD RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES WITH ME NINE MEN LATER
TODAY.
A STATE DEPARTMENT LIST RELEASED AT HOMESTEAD NAMED THE MEN AS JACK W. BR NNE
18710 NW 29TH AVE., MIAMI; ROBERT C. MORAN, 250 EAST AVM, LOCIPORT, N. T., AND
ALSO OF BRCMNE'S ADDRESS IN MIAMI; CLIFFORD G. BURNS, 60 ELM ST. L MNON, N. H.;
STEVEN BAADE o 2317 S. 80'I i AVE., Oi4AHA, NEB. ; JOHN R. KLINNER OF OCR RANCH MOM,,
MIAMI; RICHARD AVERT, 5813 FERN WOOD, PHILADELPHIA, PA.; DON BAIRD OF MADISON, GA.;
CHARLES BOOKERS 2434 WASBINaTON ST., ALEXANDRIA, VA.; AND JAMES BROWN, 124 PINK=,
CSffi R; PA.
PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS IN MIAMI SAID A PLANE HAD BEEN SE1~T TO BAVAKA TATS
MORNING AND WAS EXPECTED BACK WITH DONOVAN AND TEIE NINE AMERIC 1 AT 10 A. K. T.
A SPOKESMAN SAID IT WOULD LAND AT HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE.
DONOVAN SAID TER CUBAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED HIM IT HAS EISTABLIMM "IUOCXNC19"
OF THE ShaNDIVERS' EYPEDITION. "DESPITE THE SUSPICIOUS CIR(V1 TANG S OF TI CASE."
THE MEN HAD BBEH HELD IN CUBA SINCE THEY' WERE PIC1= UP WHILE WAIKI*3 ALOE
A BEAM IN NORTHERN CAMAGUEY PROVINCE FEB. 12. THEY WERE ARM TED AND Hl;'LD FOR
INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE ESPIONAGE.
THE AMERICA1ifS HAD SAILED FROM MIAMI JAN. 20 ON A FISBI EXPEDITION TO THE
CARIBBEAN ABOARD THE 100-FOOT MOTOR VESSEL SHRUB.
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