The World - News from Aug. 12, 1986
A U.S. Army private who went absent without leave from his post in West Germany last month may have defected to Cuba, the Defense Department said. Responding to a report on Radio Havana, the Pentagon said it is investigating the possibility that the missing soldier, Pfc. Hugo Romeu, 31, of Glenview, Ill., “may indeed be the individual alluded to” by Radio Havana. The radio, monitored in Miami, claimed that a man it identified as Army Capt. Hugo Romeu Almeida has defected to Cuba because of his objections to U.S. foreign policy on Central America.
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