FOUR FROM U.S. KILLED IN 61, MANSFIELD SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300220007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 26, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
Di c~sen Statement.
'
0n. Baof Pigs
Gets NewDetaiIs
BY the Ayoclated Press
CPYRGHT
nate
'M field bas acknowledge4
th t during the heat of the,
19 1 Cuban invasion! several
A ericans volunteered to fly
co that missions and four lost
;th it lives
us Senate Iepubtieatl'
der Dirksen - got r no argu- i
,m nt from the administration c
?c of Senate spokesman on his'
c arge yesterday. :.that four,
A ericans had: been shot down
i the Bay of Pigs ;, disaster,
Senator Mansfield. who'said
'h was speaking only for him.
f, added some details in his there was ail expldsion *.rtd he N
;s Cement: ce, +to: Dirksen said yester- ass >zanc:...
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..Then the other A.tnor1Fan:p
"It is known that a few ex- day in an interview that he
. i rieneed elan _ aizmea, uncovered evidence df the lot radioed Col
Ae.nthe of the four-flyers in his ,o,iaae .r;,il3w1
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lots. nav gawrn x an , ra - -
etay~ar~ f eldiaua United States-backed invasion engine afire.
o erators B his plane e71 in
3 r -mss '_r .. ., , ,, -ii.rmM under the fire _ ... < r. . . `. ^3
f y combat tnfssiotis Neither Senator Dirkaen. nor ? of his jn estiga UQ
Mr,.-fielA ? gave any ,* nmi's of the : { ffist ,ail
al planes :were ..attacxed an c;oseu iv T. ?^..~ -- -
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news conference in Bir- Lion continued to t ,,
ba Denies Satrimper Attack At
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Shortly before Senatcy m:ngham, Ala.. a Miami The Castro gove?iinent's for
's statement,the has 1P, i,c.logs (Fla.) lawyer an al denial that'. its 'MIGs, fir
fansfield ed
to government sent the Unit ,nced that four men re- ' oil the United States shrimp
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need by his firm - Double. boat last. wee._- was delivered
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more recent scrape la foc? anti - Castro forces aP-
veck's attack on an America pat , ntly had been killed.
n, [r al! boats stolen from. a fish
shrimp boat. a i c. The their lawyer. cargo Alex E. Ca plane rlso had
Cuba denied that its plane , n ,1,Ad in the Caribbean. lie j:lg co-operative pMeen the
charged that Two vnn.cu Sta 1,ii m,ngham area, as: r,,,` a~pror,ched the `shrim
Air Force Jets machine-?ti
Cuban territory early th his ,2ilwy W. Shamburger, 31. b nooat aut flew away withoL
..r Thn_aft Willard R.av- co- ` .....r
month, enaangeruig ~,C ...Z pilot. Leo F Baker, 35, engi- ? ??I?he United States rejecte
Russian and Cuban oil t
1e t. and Wade Carroll Gray.
' the CXtilanallol7 as propagandt
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er The State Department term ,13, radioman. Uniteri States Marine Pilo
denial propaganda. ? Ir,cse men knew what they svvrrpirc out Lo cheek on plan s
d on 1 -
t
n locate
As As to the Cuban charge t
crc vetting into," Mr. Carlson 'chich had bee two United States fight r ??tt was a calculated risk nid 11?.i?? saw the Cub
Cubans and aerwer Russ; n.,, it a n-tstegg." vithin 40 ',arils of the she P
the Ala. The MIC3s a -
technicians who were work;
/d would boat
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, in Las V q Pro ri~o~e gn Their families, t he u 6"
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'a r` e
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no such i
spoke m sppokesman saidoccurred " Nil- Carlson identified the !planes. ,
ano as a C-!? .l
four reported Qr1
were ;losing' altitude's
_~e
but no bodies
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iicr rer, former pilot fpk~'CU?
,:?^? who uM hperationrot
he did not na4ue-= di' ?
hectic hours of tlid vUiofl , ^
"On the last da`/