JAMES B. DONOVAN WILL SPEAK SEPT. `` TO CATHOLIC LAWYERS; HE ARRANGED CUBANS' RELEASE, PLEADED FOR RED SPY

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 13, 1965
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'James B. Donovan Will Speak Sept. 11
To Catholic Lawyers; He Arranged.
Cubans' Release, Ple'adej For Red -Spy
Thomas Du Pre, resi-
dent of the Catholic Lawyers
Guild, has announced that
the . Honorable James Britt
Donovan, President of ' the
Board of Education. of the,
City of New York, and noted
writer and lecturer, will
speak at a dinner following.
the traditional Red Mass at
St. Mary's Cathedral in Og-
densburg on Saturday, Sept.
11.
His Excellency, Bishop
Thomas A. Donnellan, will
preach the homily at the
Mass. It will be followed by
a reception at the home of
Bishop Donnellan, for all of
the attorneys and their wices.
A dinner, at which Mr. Dono-
van will speak, will be, held
immediately following the re-
ception.
Donovan arranged on trips to'with the- SovietEmbassy a
i asti`o and all outer Ameri; lease of U-2 pilot Franc s
cans segking repatriation Gary Powers by Soviet Ru -
Four Cubans . held prisoner sia, and the release of Unite I
in the United S~4es were reJ States student Frederick Pr
leased in a recipr'oeal act of or held by East Germany,
clemency in April,;4963. exchange for the Unit
resulted in the release o
over 9,700 Americans anac~l
Cubans from Cuba to . the
Mr. Donoyan is also well!
known for his participatioi
in the Abel Case. In August,)
1957, Rudolf Abel was indict-'-
ed in the United States Dist=
net Court, Brooklyn, for the!
JAMES B. DONOVAN capital crime of being the;
ilichief of Soviet espionage
For his service J11 this
case, Mr. Donovan was
awarded the Djst t guished
Intelligence Medal by the
Central Litcilicjicc -Agen-
cy, preseitecrbyits Direc-
tor, John - A. 'McCone, at
the direction of, President
Kennedy, who wrote a per
sonal letter of congratula-
tions.
After a jury trial which in the United States. At thc' The 1965 Red-11?rIass will b
attracted international at. suggestion of a committee the Third Red Mass spo
The Red Mass is the popu- tention, Abel was convict- appointed by the ? Brooklyn; Bored by the Catlolic La
lar name for the special cele- ed. At his sentencing, Mr. Bar Association,:. Mr. Dono?Yers Guild of the Diocese o
bration of the Votive Mass of Donovan pleaded that his van was appointed counsel; Ogdensburg. In 1963, Rev
the Holy Spirit in honor of execution would not be ..m for Mr. Abel. - ~,,- _ ? erend Tinnelly, Dean of th
St. Thomas Moore and St. the interests of the United This case w:is subsequently; School of. Law of St. John'
Ives, patrons of the legal pro- States since in the future reviewed . by the United1University, ? was thg speake
fession, and marking the an American, engaged in States Court of Appeacls andlat ceremonies hold at th
opening of the law courts in espionage, might be cap- finally by the Supreme,Lake Placid Club. Bisho i
the fall.-The Red Mass isi tured by Soviet Russia and Court. In affirming the con-Donnellan presided over th
celebrated each fall in most at such time an 'exchange viction of Mr. Abel, the Chief:1964 Red Mass at St. Mary''
of the larger dioceses and of prisoners might be Justice of the Supreme Court~Cathedral. The feature
archdioceses in the United deemed desirable by the expressed the gratitude of speaker, at the dinner at Wad
States. U.S. Government. Abel was the entire court to Mr. Dono-'hams Hall following the Mas
James Britt Donovan is sentenced to 30 years' im- van: "In my time on this was the Honorable John Mur
best known for his services J risonment. Court no man has undertaken;tagh, Chief Judge of the Ne
Cit ~r ival-FloUrts
as General Counsel to the Cu- Invasion Brigade `on Christ a more arduous, more self-York'
secrificing task. It gives thel--=
ban Families Committee fort mas Eve, 1962, in exchange
the Liberation of Prisoners jl for private donations of .j Court great comfort to know
of War, which negotiated the drugs,- medicines and baby ;that members of our bar as-1
release of twelve hundred foods to the American Red .sociations are willing to un-I
Cuban prisoners, who sur-1 Cross for the benefit of .! dei?take this sort of public) . ,
vived the Bay of Pigs inva? the Cuban people. He also service in this type of case, t
sion of Cuba in April, 1961. arranged (without further 'which normally would be of-,
After months of negoti- donations) for the immedi- fensive to them.".
ations in Cuba with the ate release of almost 5,000 In.,early1962, at* the red.
Castro Government, which relatives of,the prisoners quest of the United States
continued during the so- and hundreds of political Government, Mr. Donovan;
called "missile crisis," Mr. prisoners. went to West Berlin and'
and
,
Donovan arranged the re. af "
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