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Keesee's MissionSunRemains Secrettiroplajrettwaswasbly.By KATHLEEN NEUMEYER MARCH AFB, Calif. (UPI) -The U.S. government has found out what Bobby Joe Keesee, the mysterious Texan was doing on his private mission into North Vietnam. But neither the government nor Keesee will talk about it.Keesee, 39, of Amarillo, stunned U.S. officials handling the return of POWs from Hanoi when his name appeared on a prisoner list. At first, no one recognized the name, and no record could be found of any such American’s dissapperance.“We really weren’t too sure who it was until we shook hands with him in Hanoi,” said Charles P. Murphy, State Department officer who accompanied Keesee back to the United States.Murphy indicated the government now knows the story behind Keesee’s disappearance. Murphy said he had discussed the matter with Keesee but it is “inappropriate at this time” to go into details.Keesee “has said he does not want to talk to newsmen at present,” Murphy said.He is a “free agent,” no charges have been placed against him, and he can come and go as he likes, Murphy said.Murphy stressed that Keesee, who has said in the past he undertook a mission to Cuba for the CIA, was not an employe or an agent of the U.S. government at any time.Keesee told the CIA story when he was brought to trial in1962 on a variety of charges stemming from the escapade, which included a stolen light plane and bad checks. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison.Officials of a charter flying service in Bangkok, Thailand, say that Keesee chartered a light plane on Sept. 18, 1970, and once aloft, pulled'a pistol and forced the pilot to land him on a beach in North Vietnam.Murphy said there is no official confirmation of that version.Legislature(Continued From Page 1)governor are in the hopper with the exception of a method of reclaiming junked cars. Still to be worked out before the bill is introduced is acceptable legal language on rights to enter private property to tow away abandoned cars.Two maj‘or items in the governor’s program appear in for rough sledding.Fanning and Burke say their committees have not worked officially at all on Moore’s request for another S4S0 million in road building bonds. Democratic leaders are against having special election on the bonding authority this year, and they say questions still remain as to whether Moore’s request is too little or too much.Judiciary Chairman Mario Palumbo in the Senate and Albert Somerville in the HouseIS 4 cial unit the Yal trie er awi S aut fun legi mo gar of . 23 ant S rec Boj cor Gil Bo1 E Roi his he def ski am of1terthruni1plauplt;HuaiIthsater.lt;disersunicw
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Mon, Mar 19, 1973
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