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Frank Sturgis autographed notarized legal statement dated Miami, Florida, July 30, 1967, signed in blue ink with his legal name Frank A. Fiorini. The typed document certifies Sturgis’s eyewitness account regarding the disappearance of a twin-engine aircraft that departed Pompano Beach Airport at approximately 11:30 p.m. on November 13, 1966, carrying Gerardo Gutierrez, Antonio Fantony, and Robert (“Bob”) Spinning. In the statement, Sturgis affirms that the aircraft never returned from its flight and records his belief that the men perished in a crash at sea.

The document is formally notarized on August 17, 1967, with the notary public’s signature, stamp, and commission details present. Sturgis’s signature appears prominently at the conclusion of the text. Accompanied by the original envelope in which the statement was housed, bearing the return address of the Movimiento Insurreccional de Recuperación Revolucionaria (MIRRK), a Miami-based anti-Castro organization with which Sturgis was closely associated during the 1960s.

The incident described in this document aligns with a pattern of covert and semi-covert exile flights operating out of South Florida during the mid-1960s, many of which involved arms transport, personnel movement, or reconnaissance connected to anti-Castro efforts. A number of such flights were undocumented, deniable, or poorly recorded, and several aircraft and crews disappeared over the Florida Straits during this period without formal recovery or resolution. While definitive records on the specific flight named in this statement remain scarce, the circumstances described by Sturgis are consistent with known clandestine aviation activity tied to exile operations and private paramilitary networks active at the time.

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Frank Sturgis (1924–1993) was a former CIA operative and anti-Castro paramilitary who became infamous as one of the five Watergate burglars arrested in 1972 at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Beyond Watergate, Sturgis has long been a subject of JFK assassination conspiracy theories due to his intelligence connections and murky activities in Cuba. Some theorists, including New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, suspected him of involvement or knowledge relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Though no official evidence ever linked him directly to the crime, his association with key figures and covert operations has kept his name prominent in speculative accounts of the event.

A rare and highly consequential signed document linking Frank Sturgis—under his legal name—to Cold War–era exile operations in South Florida, accompanied by original organizational mailing material. An exceptional piece for collectors of Watergate material, intelligence history, and Cuban exile activity.

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