CASTRO STARTS FREEING AMERICAN PRISONERS; 2 WOMEN ARE FIRST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370084-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: March 18, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Castro Starts Freeing
Aniecican Prisoners;
2 Women Are First
CPYRGHT
Donovan Hopeful
Of Release of Rest,
Estimated 33 Melt
HOMESTEAD AF BASE,
Fla., March 17 (UPI)-New
r a ornev James rr 01 ar ; o. But he
novar, today brought hard- emphasized trrat the figure in-
l e first two of about :,5 eludes some Americans of Cu.
nlerican prisoners held in ban l,arenta,;e or birth.
it ha' "These are the only two
ladies 1~onr,vaii and the orivtrnets, :American lad w' were
held prisoner.' he said.
Will vcoinen, (Jew hack frIIIII
Donovan said fie visited 17
1 :IVdtia (III a special plai. .
Vr,c*u?an prisoners on the
1 c saul tme r tiler prisonor Isle t;; Pines ye~tcrtlaS after-
41- arrive soon and i bolte 41(04) and talked to others in
f 'r'he otht?t :\n'erican prN iul H:naaa Iles nurro n, lie said
c to he released gradual)> "
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skindir.,'rs at
I he others inriudeci nine skin r c -
Iro 's request ;i tiers srrestetl on a Cuban \lis. O'Neal Todd newsmen
I, ach ;ast month. "t:e was arrested in the suer
The women are Martha tnrr of 1960 bomede Cuban
mitltorities --r!jimed I had
nt that wlthtn the next plans to try and get it back
J01 weeks he'?epuId collect because t wouldn't go back
e `rienee to r ve to, Fictet there fora million dollars."
,p
n She said she was arrested.'
C` r;tro that the skfndivers Mai ch of 19WWO and chargedi.
re not saboteurs but were with counter-revolutionary f
3 lp%i ret ket vities, but that oflicia4 wont
tell her only that "We. ctot':C
bout 35' Prisoners like what you've been doing
Ile said "a " Mrs. O'Neal had been setisv
hput 33 Amerl teamed to nine years and Airs `.,
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