THE PRICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370047-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: April 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24. 1963 ***
QPYRGHT "he Price
desires, without fear of reprisal.
tan pursue as tough a policy toward Cuba as It '
HE EXACTING of ransom is always an
odious practice. It is particularly so in
the case of the exchange of 21 Americans in
C%iba for four Castro goons held in this-coun-
try. 'T'hree of these despicable characters were
accused of plotting sabotage In this country;
another is the convicted slayer of a nine-year-
old. girl.
Release of. this miserable quartet from
American justice Is a bitter pill to swallow.
BuL for the sake of freedom for a greater num-
ber of Americans we think it is entirely
worth it.
The price Castro has demanded for' free-
iiq the 21 is characteristic of his bandit
.Y ttture. But now, with the release of the
Americans. the United States is in a nnaith m
Col. Abel, regardless of his nal u,I ton
in carrying out his court-appointed defense of
highest traditions of American jurisprudence
the U. S. Neither can one forget his unprece-
dented cloak-and-dagger swap of U-2 pilot
Gary Powers for Soviet spy Col. Rud11p4 Abel
last year. Donovan, in addition, follamed the
through his efforts that American prisoners
and the Bay of Pigs Invaders are now free in
4ternational rescue committee. It is largely
James B. Donovan, that astonishing one-man
The exchange, moreover, in no way de
tracts from the accomplishments of Attorney'.1
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