DONOVAN TO THE RESCUE

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370065-6
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1
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November 17, 2016
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December 21, 1998
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65
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April 13, 1963
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NSPR
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WASHLNQ ION DAILY APR 13 IS Approved For Release 2000/08/24 CPYRGHT FOIAb3b r eL2i WA NNCTO o t ews A Rt.R1PP17?ROWARD It1iW8itt1'RR John T. O'Rourke, ed'tor Ray F. Mack, EA7 URIIAY. APRIL 1.1. 1963 1013 13th ST. N.W. tone Si In MetroppeelItan Waallnatoa: BY Carrlpr, Mt per wrKs it % per month M, Mstf: 7 moat f3.9us S w.'.ntba, $7.N6 -er seat, SISN F"elan Mail: ft mantle. S't a rear. ba. AM. C. S. Pt' Ott. Ono van to the Resale .41N 1'ei' James B. Doric. %an is making a career of springing prisoners caught up in Fidel Castro's web. On his latest expedition to ('ui>a, Mr. Donovan came home with lone Anter?- itan -ho accidentally i. a p p e n e d on Castro'. inipr ironed i~l~'r.rf i?,c?ause of a ahipwre.:. awl a missionary Castro ac- cuseti of ~JYinn for tine Central Intel- ligence -'.wejlcy. Ti yea- the same I n w+an 'ahn last triel,er ;managed the ran:..,in of 1113 of the p i isono" from the lBa' N of Pigs fiasco of two years ago. Recently, he got out two V (..h,en who had been hold by t'a.tio's jailers. And it w,t, he who negot avert the trade of the Soviet spv' Col Ittdolph Abel, foi Inc t'-'.: pilot, Franc . Po~vers. It ctlil,l he that vet. Donovan trot Started in this unique tarecr because the Hr:1.kl%,n Eau- Association it 1957 chose hit to defend Alt'1 at his trial. This niadt iiin: a 1;:;~ir ;11 tmi, i;ary, no doubt, in t h L. later Powers-Arose ex change. But the deal for the Bay of Pigs prisoners was anoiller tory. Altho Mr. Donovan was lacked 11y the $53 million in ransom goods, it took m to n t h s to wangle Castro into releasing the pris- oners. In the case of the nine ship- ra.reckf'ai men jIL,t Iii erated. Mr. I)ono- vat: a:aplarcntly had no mote going for hit; than his t:uc.i' foe rSUasion- Which must lie enut'IIIOus. When the Brtxrklyr, Ear Association appointed Mr. l)ouovan to def ad Cul. Adel (somebody h:ul to do it) the bar president said they had to have a law- yer of rharacte and a b i lit y whose loyalty was " 1,1 ?rond question." In his operations sinct. ",;r?. lhtnovmi has made vitod on tl,_rso 1 i!_ lie slid get a medal fro ii 111: :1A fur the Powers trade--hut in v if tr of his servicer more recently the t'i "i it seems a nittanro A Approved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100370065-6