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MISSING OVER CUBA SEP. 1963
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AMERICANS
MISSING
IN ACTION OVER CUBA
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...Believed Held in Cuba
in 1963...
If you have any
information on either of these two men,
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FORGOTTEN FAMILIES
$25,000 Reward Offered In
Sullivan, Rorke Case
A $25,000 reward was offered yesterday for the return alive
of two
missing Americans, one a Waterburian Geoffrey Sullivan, who
disappeared
last Sept. 24 during a flight over the Caribbean area.
The offer was announced at the New York Stork Club, operated
by Sherman
Billingsley, who is the father-in-law of one of the men,
Alexander I.
Rorke, Jr. The Associated Press reported yesterday.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sullivan, a commercial pilot, Rorke,
37, and a
passenger identified only as Enrique Molina Garcia, took off
from Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., Sept. 24.
They were last seen when they were kidnapped or captured and
are being
held by the agents of an unfriendly government or, possibly,
by that
government itself."
Points To Cuba
He added that his reference to an unfriendly government
meant Cuba, but
he said he had no evidence to support the belief that the
men might be
prisoners there.
Rorke and Sullivan had made several flights over Cuba,
relatives said,
including a bombing raid on a refinery area near Havana last
April
25. The bombs failed to go off.
Sullivan, whose last city address was 86 Lexington Ave., and
Rorke, a
free lance newsman had flown Rorke to Florida last April but
had not
taken part in the Cuban raid.
Rorke who admitted participation in the raid, said homemade
bombs had been dropped on oil refineries during the flight.
Sullivan's plane, based at Meriden Airport, was impounded
the following
month by the Federal Government and later both men warned by
Federal
authorities not to violate U.S. laws with their Cuban
activities.
Rorke's Wife Present
Also attending the news conference yesterday at the Stork
Club was
Rorke's wife, Jacqueline, who said her husband's last flight
was paid
for by Luis Somoza, former president of Nicaragua and a
staunch
anti-Communist.
She said her husband told her he was going to Mangua to see
Somoza
about opening an export-import business, but that he and
Sullivan filed
a flight plan in Fort Lauderdale for Panama. After
refueling at
Cozumel, they changed the flight plan to make Tegucigalpa,
Honduras,
their destination.
Rorke's father, a former Manhattan district attorney, has
offered a
$1,000 reward for information on his son's whereabouts, but
the uncle
made it plain the $25,000 --in unmarked money -- would go
only to the
person who delivered Rorke and Sullivan alive.
Tegucigalpa DC (Por Correo Aereo). Especial para EL
TIEMPO N.
Y. Acaba de visitar la capital de la Republica, el
norteamericano
Mr. William H. Rorke con el proposito de establecer contacto
con alguna
persona que ofreciera indicios sobre el paradero de su
sobrino y un
joven acompanante, desaparecidos misteriosamente durante una
travesia
en avioneta el 24 de Septiembre de 1963.
Los norteamericanos Geofery Sullivan y Alexander Rorke Jr.,
abandonaron
el aeropuerto internacional de Broward en Miami, Florida, un
martes 24
de septiembre de 1963 a las 3 p.m., tripulando una avioneta
Beechcraft
registrada con el numero 6795 T - Bimotor de color azul y
blanco.
El plan de vuelo estaba trazado hasta Panama - sin embargo,
durante el trayecto cambiaron de ruta para dirigirse a
Honduras.
En Conzumel, al Sur de la Peninsula de Yucatan se
reabastecieron de
combustible y despegaron con rumbo a esta capital,
aproximadamente a
las 7:30 de la noche de la fecha antes indicada.
Versiones sin
confirmar suponen a los dos jovenes norteamericanos
localizables en
algun pais centroamericano.
El tio de Alexander Rorke Jr., ofrecio una recompensa de
$25,000 a la
persona que los conduzca a cualquier puerto o ciudad de los
Estados
Unidos.
El Sr. William Rorke agrego que su sobrino Alexander puede
identificarse al informante diciendole algo asi como el
santo y sena o
el lema de sus antecesores o tambien el nombre del clerigo
que lo caso
- o el nombre de sus abuelos. Agrego que el Sr.
Sullivan - piloto
acompanante de Alexander Rorke, puede identificarse diciendo
el nombre
de su esposa e hijos o el de su senor padre.
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