CIA EMPLOYE MISSING IN CRUISE SHIP'S FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400430011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 31, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Wi\SIIINGTON STAR DEC 31 1963
Approved For Release 2000/05/05: CIA-RD
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photo.
being towed toward Gibraltar.-AP Wire-
The burned out shell of the Greek cruise ship
Lakonl begins- the list which caused her to
sink yesterday In the Atlantic Ocean while
CIA Employe Missing
to Cruise Ship's Fire
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among tho passengers miss- his mother, Mrs. Lydia V.!
.A MA Pmnlnve whoformerlyl A native of e i?as a City,
Ile was identified. as Dennis
W. Vernon, 34, an information
specialist with the -CTA. who
was stationed in Lon$o}i. Mr.
Vernon was on a Volition trip
on the i11-fated Greelr,,A;Wise
ship when she burned, QfZ,the
coast of Africa.
Mr. Vernon was not among
the survivors or the identifiable
dead.
,
, ass
s
.
erno
an
Thomas,
naval attache, at the united
States Embassy in Cairo,
Egypt.`.
Mr Vernon grraduatcd from,
the ' Universll;y of gl kraska'
with a b chelor ` acferice
degree 1 '"gr ail% we` s called)
to ; i - airi the Air
Natio ar _ 1 1952. to
19.54, 11a ea Wed a master s
degree. 'in ?education at the
IInive ty of Oregon.
Mr. Vernon went to work for
the intelligence agency In
Washington May, 1956, and
wag transferred to London in
19e0, Ile was not married.
STATINTL
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