“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/8/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-90019-10365 ~ RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: 97-4623-NR Document Information: ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LO TO: HQ TITLE : A 5 DATE: 08/05/1964 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : ALEXANDER RORKE ALEXANDER IRWIN RORKE JR DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Withhold DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 05/13/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS: — RPT a—————— v9.4 Docld: 323237253 Page 1
Released—under ‘thedohn Fi~Kennedy-Assassination” “Records Collection Act of 1992" (44° USC 3107 Hotey. _ DATE: Aa4-2017- ¢ CONFIDENTIAL. 8/57 1be wet - GU Ree A: Floyd PARK,” also knowh a3 Floyd PARKS. . we 4 a g Ae \ . . Please refer to 3 your. 14651 dated 18th December, in which you . enquired if PARK had come to notice in British Honduras. . , a 6 a 26 Our representative in Janaica has informed us that according . \ : to his source in British Honduras PARK visited British Fonduras five =~ AN, “ times during 1963. One visit, which has some significance, was from NN “44th August until 11th Novembar 1963. PARK returned to British Honduras '. on 19th June and is, apparently, still there, examining prospects for : sugar cane cultivation at Chunno x in Sorozal. | ~— N. 7 ; a ui h, oh Be PARK wag interviewed by the security authorities on 22nd June and , ( -'.. -gawe the following information about himsslf. He owned a private "Howard" a : ‘.  °.. aeroplane which he piloted himself, based on McAllen, Texas.. The airoraft's . registration number was N.9442 and PARK admitted that he had at one time used ai 4 ' the aeroplane to smuggle textiles and whiskey into Mexico from the U.S.A. and & | s,, °° Britdsh Honduras. He claimed, however, that he did not smuggle into the U.S.AU ooo is., and British Fonduras. Since 1962, however, because freight rates had fallen oa fiov gs, to fifteen cents per pound, he had given up all smuggling activities. a he _ When he vas questioned about RORKE and SULLIVAN, PARK admitted that o, . «1. he did know something about them. He said that in late September or oarly meee ete petting October 1963 while he was in Texas he read an article in the American Argosy a Coe magazine calling for information about them. The article recalled to PARK a |. meeting ho had had with two Americans and a third man, described as of a | "Latinetype", at about 10,30 am. at Belize City airport on 25th September a | 1963. He identified the Americans as RORKE and SULLIVAN from their description Lo, | in the article and photographs later distributed in leaflet form offering a . of reward for information leading to their present whereabouts. - 5. PARK recalled thet when the Belize meeting took place he was waiting , ' /. . to pilot his own aircraft to Chunnox. He noticed, standing at the terminal, ~~ | -@ twoeengined "Beechcraft" aeroplane, painted blue, white and gold. The _ > "Beechcraft" struck him as an unusual aircraft to find in Belize, but although © _s\« he examined it, he could not recall its registration number or any other - ddentifying particulars. _ 6. When he got back to the reception lows: + the cis 8 BEADED | Americans introduced themselves ~ presumably by naw, bublepielGel od %lear ~ |: as owners of the ‘plane. They wore accompanied by the aber: man, but |: he was not, introduced. PARK thought that the Latin was abowt-30. years : OFZAEO o he , 9% The Americans said that they were fuelling their aircraft to. fly to ; - {+s Teguedgalpa in the Republic of Fonduras. They did not volunteer their reason | for the trip and PARK asked no questions. PARK left Belize before they did. . 1. 8 Having remembered all this, PARK rang the editor of "Argosy" and as a io. -- 1. pesult received calls from Mr. RORKE Senior and a man with the title "Captain" a i . | but whose name PARK did not catch. Both sought full information; PARK under- | | stood that the aircraft had been hired from tha Captains a co oe ALL BE INFORMATION CONTAINED ce — en HERES ree : po ; 7 , a be Pocld: 32323723 ‘Page P] .
“Released under the John F.- Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. _ DATE: A1- 14> 2017 ; ‘ ; . os a : . : . } OE en e rr re a ; i oe ee - cowie 9, |. The ‘seourity authorities in. British Fondures have checked PARK's" a a to » story as far as they can and: are not satisfied that he told the truth, ce | for the following reasons? a me pare oe (a) _cheoks at the Airport Control show no , flight plen at all. 7 wet _. ... in 1963 for FARK in his own machine entering or. Aeaving : es i British Fonduras; - _ ; : ar a “ “+ .(b) no one at Chunnox could confirm that PARK was there on aot : oy Lote .. . 25th September 1963 (this is not conolustves . enquiries an at Chunnox proved difficult) 5 Sons, oe we: (0) none of the people at the airport who might be “expected ” "to vemember a "Boecheraft".- the Chief Civil Aviation Officer, the Airport Manager, Customs and Immigration OS wa fhe | personnel, the Esgo employees, etc. = could renember . os oy St. "0. omy guoh aireraft. —. Po Py “ty 106 When he was confronted with all this, PARK insisted that he was Bees (telling the truth. He suggested that the Peechcraft's flight had beom == = § *; . Glandestine and connected. with anti-Communist activity in the Republic of — ee - Honduras = an unlikely story which he supported by saying that the Latin =’ - gould have been a Cuban agent who had defected and who. later "gold oub® 900 of) -, RORKE and SULLIVAN to the Republic of Fonduras Government. He went oa can . . to say that early in January he had heard that after the coup in the _ Republic many pro-Castro people had been = deported to Cuba and they ' . Ineluded ‘two Anericans. oo a Lo We The ineonsistencies in all this need 1 no underlining. ‘The security re Shoe authorities, British Honduras, do not believe PARK and think that the whole, eof et tory § as a die. to cain some kind of reward from a Mrs. ROBKE Seniors . - Mie A000 oy a vee ak a | ; 5 Docld: 323237253 Page 3 \