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Record:

RORKE, ALEXANDER IRWIN, JR.

Sources:

CIA Box 2, Folder 16 (MMF 289); CIA Box 5, Folder 11, Doc 02278 (MMF 578); Parade Magazine, 4/12/64; San Antonio Light, 4/26/63; Dallas Morning News, 4/28/63; HSCA Vol 10, pp. 72, 90, 93; The Last Investigation, Fonzi, pp. 88-90, 343; HSCA Reel 16, Box 11, Folder P, Q, R (AMKW 12); MMF 2142-2150

Mary's
Comments:

DOB: 8/9/26 Former clerk at the FBI. Soldier of Fortune; pilot who owned a boat "Violin III"; had F8F confiscated in Ft. Lauderdale. FAA officials seized plane belonging to Alexander Rorke and Geoffrey Sullivan in Meriden, Conn. for dumping bombs on Havana. Rorke and Sullivan denied it. On March 24, 1963, Rorke and Frank Fiorini were planning a separate strike against Cuba. Presumably dead in plane crash in Caribbean in Sept 1963; son-in-law of Sherman Billingsley, owner of New York's famous Stork Club. Brother-in-law of Douglas K. Gentzkow. It is alleged that when his plane went down with Geoffrey Sullivan, his father and an insurance company paid David Ferrie and Thompson and others to go look for him.

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