3 YANK PWS HOME FROM ANGOLA JAILS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606800002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 18, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
18 November 1982
3 Yank PWs home
from Angola jails
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Three American prisoners of ~?ar
freed by Angola arrived in New York
yesterday to tearful reunions with
family and friends, and two said they
had -been treated humanely. by their
'Marxist jailers: _ - -
Geoffrey Tyler, 28, of Seabrook,
_ Md.. -a-.pilot,-and .mercenaries ~vstavo
Grillo,`"33,`of Toms River; `iV~:, and-
' Gary Acker, 28, of Sacramento, Calif.,.
arrived on a TWA,jet from Paris.-
Thethree had private reunions with
their families and friends. , ~ ....
"I don't feel that my?treatment~vas
inhumane, although my confinement
in the jai] was completely unjust," said
Tyler, who described his reunion with
his mother, Marjorie, ss tearful.
Grillo, who said he went to Angola
for "romance and adventure," said he
too "was treated humanely." Grillo was
met by his stepfather and -mot}ier,
Edmund .,and .Laura Hevvelet, also,pf
Toms River. - ~ .- ...
' ` "We are extremely happy to have
Gustavo hack home again," said
' Edmund Heweiet at his home last
night. "He didn't sleep for three entire
days, between all-the traveling and all
the excitement. 'You can imagine -how
excited he was after spending seven
years in jail and then being released all
of a sudden."
Hewelet said that Grillo "hit the
sack" as soon.as he arrived home."'He"
? is completelyexhausted and just wants
to catch up on-his sleep," he said,
adding that his ~~tepson is ".feeling
pretty good."
TYLER WAS ferrying a single en-
give plane from Lakeland, Fla., to
Capetown, South Africa, when engine
and electrical_troubles forced him to
land in Angola on Feb. 4, ]981. He said
no charges ever were filed against him.
Grillo who said he volunteered to.
fig ~ or a NLA guerre a group,
walked with a cane and said he suf?.
fer a eg injury uz ngo a.,:_,-...