REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380034-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: January 2, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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el fijiF H "~, K{GroH IUREAU
ightk!962 by th? Chicago Tribune)
tits blackmail aS' creas" d -t n dollars
ASHINGTON, Jan. 1-President Kennedy has ransoms
his conscience and Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's apps
it f o4, drugs, and mon it, upon ' fa0 **U -f the Bay
i son of 'boy, good will, thanksgivin
w,trriith, 4nd family reunions. In the `
r
and the rejoicing ove
spirit of the,day ,reedom for the prisoners, the !ago o
itxr bloody landing at the Bay of Pigs o
April 17, 1961, was forgotten.
r`orgotten also was the fact that'Presi
' ~,L Kennedy had given the green ligh
fr r the inv pg, ithout adet u
lying to pads the4buck b blame,
fih -re, pref ably on'`the blicann,
President courageously s o dered ' re~
K n:?ed was c tiered b" re Las prisoners in Miami
when he expressed, the ope a u 1 some day be*free.
The prisoners were happy to be '$ ine was happy to get
l ho weight of. the Bay of Pigs bacle omewhat off his coon-
I" S. Business . fqt; Pu Up
THE RELEASE was effet d u the payment of 53 million
dollars in foods, drugs, nd witty 3 xfti ions in cash. Vir-
tially all of this was put up by usiness
11 whom the Presi-
dent said be had,been warned a anist b hid father, Joseph P.
Kennedy, The President, who h s filled is New Frontier with
professors, has never recalled his father's warnh% against class-
i'tm "liberals."
l Food' and drug men were-, a wed t deductions for their
contributions, which became cha ity bec use they were relayed
io `,astro thru the American Red Cross. t would of seem that
the' general public wps affected, t Mite 11 Rogon, an a ieial
of he internal refhue servic said tat the government's
ns t e t pao a taxes: The
share of the citthis e rant mill on
government, ers who will
have to makeup the loss in re nue ov r the next few ,ears.
What the indirect "`costs w re to axpayert in military
mobilization, military activities, overnm nt operations, and the
like, will never be known. Est mates Into the tens and
even the hundreds of millions,
Like all blactWgilers, Castr hasn't stopped his 'demands.
The ease with which his, ciep.an s were net has Inspired him
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f.'astro Ties Another,8trifrg to 'rv m
AST1tO TIED a string on his.promise to 0-1
tives of the ill-fated Cuban invasion paid
hat all those wanting to leave would be permitte only
f Pan American World Airways resumes its fligtt een
Priv4ta and ;commercial flights over the island were canned
ufiing thO crisis over the construction of Russian xniss11i bases.
an Ani6rican officials have no taste for resumption gf the
hts because restrictions and limited travel had occas1Qed
psfro evidently wants the Tights resumed for prestige j5ur- !
oHe is posing as a big man in. Cuba because he has made
he United States accede to his demands. Food~r~snd drugs will
ia
ka the recipients happy for a time, so that1#iere is no doubt
is regime has been bolstered by the American payments.
Castro has held out the hope that about 20 American p
ners might be released during t e negotiations for the relea?
if the Bay of Pigs prisoners. No;1ie will undoubtedly demand;
ansom, in one form or another, for the release of tbeluiericans
Payment of blackmail is often as morally destruct e to the
river as to the payee.
Approved For Release 2000/06/13 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100380034-9
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