IN SHOCK AFTER CIA TALKS BURNS DUE SATURDAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100570012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 5, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Syracuse' Post-Staxid.'d
pilot Trevor Burns' Alvin LeFlcur said Burns, 43, into the Caril;bean after run.
edation on doctor'slapparently went into a delayed ning out of gas on a flight from
light after spending shock after reliving, in talks Puerto Rico to the U.S. He
,s with meml,-ers of
Intelligence Agency
his plane ditching
td hti stay in Ha-
with the CIA, his 28 hours in swam for 28 hours before' being
shark-infested waters, Le Fleur rescued and takqn ashore to
flew to Cuba to return Burns Cuba.
to the U.S. recently. Several thnes he was ap?
"The Cubans called him 'The proached by sharks, who came
up into a lot of nonsense.
Burns had said he-has a mes-
sage for Rockefeller, and would
disclose it only to him.
LeFleur said last night, how-!
ever, that the message "is noth
i.rlg that can hurt anybody,. I.
don't see why there is such a,
big mess over it.... relations!
between Cuba and the U.S. can't
get much worse than. they are,
now, can they?"
. LeFleur said Burns spent the
{afternoon with the CIA going,
.over maps and discussing every-
thing the Syracusan did and saw
while in Cuba.
LeFicur said the CIA -also:
gave him back some of the picy
tures he took at the Havana air=
port when he went there to pick
up Burns.
He said after he took off from
the Havana airport he circled
Havana for about' 20 minutes
and took 'pictures. These were
also. tuzned over, to the CIA, ho
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", `' .. '? ', .,,,~`; ,'
said.,
l_. Burns' 'light::'' plane ?'grashe4
something of a miracle." about 2,500 feet,over?the water.
Le Fleur said he and Burns "Burns started telling me
will fly into Syracuse on Satur- about what happened in the wa-
day.' Burns Is staying in Le- ter," 'LeFleur said, "and all
.Fleur's Home near Miami. of a .sudden' I looked and we
?LeFleur expressed distress were at 9,000 feet.. that's how
,over the way ? he 'said Burns' much sharks scare me I : had
message to Gov. Rockefeller been pulling higher and higher,
-and gifts of cigars from a high unconsciously, ,'?aa she wao
Cuban official "has been blownltalking':!*
Alan Who Was Reborn','.' Le- close but did not attack him.
Fleur said, "because man rare- LeFleur said that as they
ly survives in his encounters headed toward Miami, Fla., ln
with sharks. When he does it is his plane they ,were flying at.
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