CIA Pilot Finally Buried, 53 Years After Being Shot Down

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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A CIA pilot killed in an ambush by Chinese communists 53 years ago has been buried in his mother's grave, a year after military investigators found his remains and identified them.

Robert Snoddy was 31 when he was shot down on a clandestine mission in Manchuria in 1952.

A last wish of Snoddy's mother was that no marker be placed on her grave until her son came home. A stone with the names of both mother and son will mark the long-delayed reunion.

"He's home, and it's not a time to be sad anymore," Roberta Lee Cox, Snoddy's daughter and only child, said following a funeral Friday.