THE EVENING STAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01022R000100180014-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: April 9, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Skin Divers and Missionary
Freed by Castro, Reach U.S.
MIAMI, Fla., April 9 (AP) . Floyd C. Woodworth, was ac-
-Nine American skin divers cused by Premier Castro in a
and an American missionary midnight television speech of
landed at Homestead Air Fore working for the United States
Base today after serving tim Ce
in Cuban jails.
The Pan American Airline
DC-3 that brought them from
Havana also carried James
Donovan, New York lawyer,
who negotiated with Cuban
. rime Minister Fidel Castro for
their release.
he missionary, the Ree
Mr. oodworth's wife and
two children flew in from Cuba
about two weeks ago on a Red
Cross ransom flight. She went
to her home in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Woodworth's home is Ar-
Pueblo, Colo.
Mr. Donovan, who also ne-
go"atEed release` of the Say of
pigs- prisoners 'last 'YSecember,
said Premier Castro agreed to
Donovan prored them Innocent
e' Iiad been held for seven
D a ue ' In an open boat Feb-
--XTter Two days at
aae vifhnnt. fnnri a.nrl water.
'THE EVENING STAR A=3
Washington, D. C. ****
Tuesday, April 9, 1963
was confirmed by a newsman
who interviewed his father in
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Opal Ingrewson,
Omaha, Nebr,., flew to the air
base to greet her son, Steven
V. Baade, also of Omaha.
Alexandrian in Group
The other skin divers Pre-
viously had been identified as
Robert C. Moran Lockport;
N. Y.; Clifford G. Burnes,
Lebanon, N. H.; John R. Klin-
ner, Miami; James Brown,
Chester, Pa., and Charley E.
Bocher Alexandria, Va.
Mr. Donovan talked earlier
with newsmen in Havana,,
"The government has ee and" a resident of
N t i 4r ears The tan,
strik~i~_.? bacliaired woman
say e us arid was 46 yes
ter ay anti that a welcome
hpmc Party was planned.
lli said the boat the_ Ameri-
cis were in when it snk-was lipsb~nd s and was newly
otltfitted. he boat 't`he Shrub,
wa,? designed for fishing and
lobstering, she said. It also
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