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Jonas Pleškys

Lithuanian military officer
Jonas Pleškys was a Soviet Navy barge captain who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States in April 1961. As a captain of a barge, he directed his vessel to Gotland, Sweden, where he asked for political asylum. The crew and the barge... Wikipedia
Born: March 10, 1935, Giliogiris, Lithuania
Died: April 14, 1993 (age 58 years), California
Children: 2