FREED CUBAN PRISIONERS TELL OWN STORY OF INVASION DISASTER AT BAY OF PIGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380044-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: December 30, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

t.SH?'\?('T()N STAR 0 1962 FOIAb3b
Approved For ReI 2AQ/06/13 : CIA-RDP75-0000
Of ?'lnyaswmn :Disaster at Bad of Pigs
By JIM ECIc.ER and
RODE REt,l,;
Associated r~ taff writers
doorstep of a rambling ranch-'
style home in Coral Gables.,,
Fla., Ulises Carbo', ".17, tenderly
kissed his wife goat lye.
As the tall, trim " Cuban
walked down the steps, his 10
year-old son, Ulises jr., ran'
and caught him by the hand.
"Dad, the house keys," the''
boy said
his face set in adult'
,
seriousness. "I'll be the man of .n airfield high in the moun'A
the house now. I must have wins of Guatemala," Mr. Leyva
the keys. . ?' aid.
In Miami, Rene Leyva, 49'; The 49-year-old Leyva was
read final proof of the day's -signed to air force mainte-
nce and stayed behind.
issue of the newspa per Advance
,
but his Mind' *as not on ti ers went into combat bat-! with outboard motors. They
r ions. Speaking of his young were shooting at us, machine
hefts. He wss "'Waiting for vd
rT. {' Mr. Leyva said:
telephone eaY1 I guns. It was thick," Mr. Santi-
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his son could go=`'i`'~""he' could
go, too.
Now the telephone raiig and'
a man told him they both could`
go. Mr. Leyva telephoned the
publisher and said he would lie
away for a few days
At the airline counter' 'at
Miami Airport, Raoul Arango
wa. 'spending his last day be-
hind the desk. He siii'1l d to
hittelf.
He was tired of standing, and
here he"was, going off to learn.
to be a paratrooper.7't'hat could
be pretty hard on the feet, too,
he thd_tight....
It was March 15, 1961.
A call to arms had rung r^ment " said Mr.Carbo. The Houston ra i Td? , By the 19th, we were *:bout
rough the exile Cuban com- it o; ammunition , our
At first it was Cubans in vvas full of .TsldieTs ami oYr, of ~1
munity, and men were gather- tructii.i us;" said 112r. Sant' aviation s. rnuni,iol F., 1}Iyl j eookas were down one
mg. ',e' per gins Their t cks
'There was really no other go. We trained for about a other stzpniies." a
I "We thought the fii t Bg ; i rt4 ink heavier aitfii sow
onth. Then we started get-
Fission left for us in life but r t' i. ; iti lery was re ,.into Ang reatia.wt? to_iuh~ JL9F~uua"sr` ? tirn "eir air foorcce 4tfed th _W held, said there were some Cu- ors, women and children, were when he needed to shoot, doing
~$~ va said.
ban recruiters who gave at n the docks, and President what he needed to do. By 7