TREVOR BURNS 'TOUCHES DOWN' AT HOME BASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100570011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Burns istayed with Lafleur. He
"A friend once told me to keep,! area later this month. reportedly went into "delayed'
y head under the water and , Burns again confirmed that he' shock" Wednesday after going'
y eyes'open if I ever landed, had a box of Havana' cigars fort.over everything he saw and did;.
i shark-infested waters," Burns 'Governor Ne1~ei.,&oJ4a* re'feller, In Cuba with representatives of
id. He ? added that he thought; and a confidential message from' the' U.S. ( nle II1 gencq
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a 'rled him out of Cuba I st Sun? hey ed that he expected Burns to' as a ermine to find happi-
couldn't get behind him-;
curity."
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J ancoc AirDor aboard ace y putting his head be-i. a ou ..';and
amusement business, comment s described the Cuban people
f; the same light plane w icb fer w water and watching them so
v,,+.....100? i amps retauvety well SLOCKea
o, arrived about 6:45 p?m rester blo to keep. from being, at? with the basic necessities of life
da at H k k d b ' Lafleur who is in' th td
y engagement on Wednesday. He- he saw no anti-American slo-'
In. Cuba -after his lig t plan, At various times, Burns said, It he 'w-m th.,.. ._, ... ... t.; _ ,.._a ....L__i
Who spent two weeks la t mont nto ! a coral reef and was res- Burns has a network television! about. He claimed at that time
ued by the Cuban nay
morraw, w
en he and Lafleur Cuba, and asserted it was not
t
The 43-year-old Sy acusan ` ours before he finally stumbled will fly to New York City, whereI the Cuba he'?had read and heard
Burns was met at th Flight
Service terminal by hi w I f e,
Annette, his 11-month-old son
Todd, and a battery o news-
men and photographers.
F,. He arrived aboard a b ue-ands
i white Cessena 1sn. will,
;money," red from. spnburn and expo?, night related ,a 'somewhat dif-:
"I'm broke," he declared. "I re after, being rescued, but; ferent version of the d t n r v ha.
.?.,111 ')y&-cube sutuc seven "' = ate" ' 'v" I Dul' us also ciaimea that, nls,iq
months, said the first th ng be, ing about eating; I was wor?; previous remarks on his stay in,
Intended to do was "mak some ed about being eaten." a suf.; Cuba were distorted and last
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wife, Burns, who has bee away
,
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ago. V presel'ver to keep himself the expects to be contacted by'
which Burns crashed' Feb. 16. al were lapses of memory and Burns declined to discuss 'the,
;Flying Burns in was Alvin Laf- llucinations., "I saw people, message for Rockefeller, saying
leur of Miramar, Fla., his em- lantoms and automobiles In the'! that It was given to him in con-
,?ployer, long-time friend and the ater," he declared. He was un-;fidence. He denied it concerned
same pilot who brought him into le to sleep, at' all, he said: Ile arrangements for a talk between'
West Hollywood
Via, a week ed' a yellow' Mae' West-type ! Rockefeller and Castro He sav
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lane is similar to the one in g Lne norrors of his or=,for Goldwater., nht l' ''
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Special" painted on the side.1rl;,;ii., ;. `f`es uCW4C w the governor. He also joked, BUrns was placed under sea
a
ug 1 , ne, an t
ey are cramming
~back to ~Syracus .,with hi was, g?to; some healing axeas on his Communism down the:thropts of
of Cuba, ut ost, three layers of skin, There is lots of hunger.and;?'
The only thing Burns b o ht f mv legs 1! he 'added ' point f
rm d
h
75 miles, oft the southern coast.. w all l right," Burns declared'itely not"'happy," Burns said.
:'lost 'everything I owned when herwisd was; said to be in; told newsmen Immediatly after
my plane went down." Buns re--' ? od health. arriving on U.S soil last Sunday ;,