MORTON SAYS U.S. PUSHED RANSOM DEAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380059-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: December 28, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

r !oi tbn Say
U. S. Pushed
Ransom Deal
LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 27:
ten (K-Ky.) today criticized th~
aom of invasion prisoner
from Castro's Cuba.
Morton said examples o
Government intervention I
the ransom were:
? An Internal R e v e n u
Service announcement tha
contributions of materials t
the fund could be deducte
from taxes due at the sellin
price rather than at the cos
of the materials.
? That Attorney Gener
Robert Kennedy had con
tatted "a company with
antitrust suit pending agains
it" and suggested "they contribute to the ransom fund ...'
? That a member of the in
.vestigsiting committee of Sen
Ystcs. Kefauver (D-Tenn.) sug-
gested "that a drug company
.make donations to this
fund' "
When these things hap-
pened, Morton told a civic
c ub r4cheon, it became ap
pare that` the Government
Was nnected with the ran-
s3itn?o W that it was not exclu
ye',n private venture.
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