PLANS TALK TO CUBANS IN ORANGE BOWL - 822 KIN ARRIVE FROM HAVANA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380054-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: December 28, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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President Kennedy will go r
Miami Saturday to see the 1,11; Ia
freed Cuban Invasion prisoner
at a special ceremony in th ' o
Orange bowl. The visit Is schec a
uled for 9:10 a. m. b
Plans for the president's tri
were announced here by fly
.
Invasion survivors who visit
the holiday White House
gatlons said they came to than i
Kennedy for his part in winnin s
their freedom and to invite hi 1
to the ceremony.
BY JULES DUBOIS
(ChkuN TriWR1 Pves$ Str,kri d
can freighter African Pilot a N
rived today with 922 Cuba g
refugees, the largest singl Il
mass exodus from PremieC
Fidel Castro's communist i B
land.
The refugees, mostly wome
and children, are relatives
the 1,113 Cuban invasion p
oners Castro freed under a 51
million dollar ransom deal.
The ship, on loan to the Re I
Cross; from the America
icago' titer
after:-8 a. M. i
nearby port erglades
an uneveWhd hots
hip tro
Havana.
Mica" Nurses Aboard
The first to disembark
nine can of oontald
diseasesr,:mainly no s,
tee" Ias afgltt b -tvhti_ _
of the 1tRl Cross volunteer,.
m that had been flown to
vana yesterday to return on
ere were 11 stretcher.
ses. The passengers included
2 children.
As soon as the refugees were
ocessed thru immigration,
d customs, the Red Cross
ve them toilet a:.icles, and
ges, a p p l e s,., sandwiches,
Taken t" Miami
rival, the Cubans were atken
bus to Dinner Key auditor-
id scenes of emotion and joy.
tspoken in their happiness
d gratitude. Others could not
lieve that th-y no longer had
fear Castro's communist
or
n, Roman, 28, was captured
the invasion. Her husband
id, "Anything outside of Cuba
ks like heaven."
Youngest 21 Days Old
The youngest refugee was 21
ys old and the oldest was a:
year-old grandmother. She is-
anddaughter, Mrs. Virginia
ancourt, is a member of the
tancourt's father, Miguel, 62,
ve up his awning factory in/ftca, a man and woman, down
vana to join his daughter. the gangway. The stretcher.
Mrs. Betancourt's husband cases were moved quickly away
es prison last Monday night., . Not ill of the liberated prison-
Three of the six children of, era were lucky enough to greet
n with the measles. Ths''snt " araite? iht vain
ced in an isolation wajd. j 1i aA1 ialS4: X k"
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