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INTERNAT TONAL
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TERDAY A SERGEANT ACCO:
OLITICAL ASYLUM IN CUBA,
U,8_ COMMISSIONER,
THEFT.
THE FBI SAID,
TEX,
VEENMENT,° TRE FRI SAID.
70 MIAMI.
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WESLEY GRAPP, SPECIAL AGENT IN: CHARGE OF
SAID KEESEE FACED CHARGES OF DESERTIOR
KEESEE, OF AMARILLO, TEX», 1S CHANGED IN A FBI
IN ALBUQUERQUE, NoM,, WITH RENTING A SIVALL. PLANE (RUBRE AND FLYING IT
TC HAVANA, VIA‘ KRY WEST, LAST MARCH 2:
NO ONE KNEW KEESBE HAD GONE TO CUBA UNTI
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MAY LL, 1962
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FOI AGENTS PROMPTLY PLACBD SGT, ROBRRT JOR KEES ONDER ARREST
WHEN HE LANDED HERE ABOARD A RBGULAR ‘COMMERCIAL. "FROM RAVANA,
fit WAS HELD IN THE DADE COUNTY JAIL PENDING A BBA AY BEFORE A
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CUBAN OjfPICIALS KEPT TRE PLANE,
THE NEXT DAY THAT RE HAD LANDED AT BAYANA AND FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM,
HE WAS CHARGED WITH DESERTION FROM THi'ARMT,: iVB1 SAID, AFTER EB
FAILED TO RETURN TQ FORT BAUCHUCA, ; ‘T THR) EMD OF A
TWO-WEEK LEAVE, a
THE 11 SAID KEESEE TOLD AGENTS WHO QUESTUWMAND R HIS ARREST
HAT WHEN HE ARRIVED IN CUBA HE WAS PUT IN PREGA PT THERE 49 DAYS.
WAS “EXTENSIVELY INTBRROGATED BY DIFPERESS, i) ‘THE CUBAN
GRAFP SAID THAT YESTERDAY MORNING, “WIT:
CUBAN AUTHORITIES HAD KESSRE'S BEARD SHAVED 0
4 SHOWER AND POT ON CLEAN CLOTHES, THEN POT a!