FATE HELD SURPRISES FOR CUBAN CAPTIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: December 25, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

ASHIiNC TON STAR DEC 2 5 1962
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WOOD NEWS, MOSTLY
Fate Held Surprises
5-month-old twin nephews,
Felix and Jose Solaun. They
had been flown from Rochester,
N. Y., for the occasion.
$2,000 Windfall
their father died four months
'ago in Havana. Eugenio, 40, a
leader of the April, 1961, inva-
sion, had been held incom-
municado in the Isle of Pines
for the past seven months. He
was never told of his father's
death.
Rene Luis Pelly, 28, arrived
!at Dinner Key Auditorium for
the firstreunion with his fam-
~Aly, and-was introduced to his
pries n Madrid, waiting for him.
The brother had made the long
for some of the Cuban invasion prisoners.
Eugenio Sardina, for example, got off the shuttle plane )l'
from Havana and found his brother, Jorge, a Roman Catholic I
One young bachelor got the
word that he' had more than
$2.000 in the f ia)1k as a result
of his 20-month imprisonment.
The United States Go e}?nment
had continued, paying refugee
relief chbck$ to prisoners who.
a.d once lived here, even those
without dependents.
Ins this case, a friend here
had banked the checks.
Although some of the teiisiorl
Lilt up through the long vigil
f Sunday by a nine-hour de
ay in the arrival of the first
risoners of war had eased by
he middle of yesterday. Dome-
g4 Air; Force Base south of
anii, was still the scene of
motional incidents.
Sergio Carillo, a Negro who
as assistant to one of the
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rigade 2506-=the Bay of Pigs
nvasion force-dropped to his
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Victor Cardenas. unahlo to to trial," Mr. Cor- sick and wounded. He wore a
rea said. But he wouldn't an- gray glove on his disfigured
Fswer questions about who left hand.
contain his emotion, collapsed
from excitement before he
reached the bus waiting to take
the Wien to the Immigration
Service processing center at the
air base. He sobbed piteously
as B o r d e r Patrol troopers
helped him aboard the bus.
Heart-rending scenes were
repeated over and over at Din-
ner Key auditorium, the re- "Orne from the
ceiving center for the men craft on a litter
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CPYRGHT
coming in from the air base. 'Despite the rigors of
confinement and inadequate life, however, and despite the
diet wept openly as they show- Poor diet which left them thin
ered wives, children,. fathers and weak, most of the men
and niothers.with kisses. seemed healthy. Many leaving
Families Reunited the planes could scarcely wait,
to leap from the ramp and get
Men stared happily at infant the feel of f
ree land under
sons and daughters they had their feet. To assure them-
never seen before. Mothers, selves it was all true.
tears streaming down their
faces, gave shrill shouts of joy Prisoners Reticent
at the sight of sons free from
Communist prisons. Many of the prisoners were
One arriving prisoner, 34hesitant to tell reporters about
experiences. They were
Year-old Raul Leal, shouted; their afraid of making trouble for
for joy as he saw his 14-riuanth-! their companions still in Cuba
old son, Raul, Jr., for the first waiting their turn to fly out.
time, and Pronounced himself 1
"very happy, especially about Eduardo Correa was typical.
this little,, package of joy." His He described how he had got
wife Nina, smiling through I ten involved in the invasion by
y
tears, worried about her hus- Joining the Frente exile Revolucion-
band as he hugged the child arto, an erstwhile exile organi-
fiercely. nation headed by Manuel An-
"He -seems to have lost tonio de Vai'ona, a fromer cu-
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He had his
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Occasionally among the pris-. "The. Frente Offered me the I his son, Luis, who had ad gone to
aces and kissed the airstrip' oners was one whose hardships opportunity to join. the inva- Ithe invasion, too. Luis was re-
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owned the plane or what had
happened during training.
"I can't talk about that," he
said. "We can't say anything
while some of our comrades
are still in Cuba. Anything
could happen."
Mr. Correa came out on the
fifth of the 10 flights to Home-
stead Air Force Base.
Leaders Were Last
The last planeload of pi''is-
oners seemed to draw more
.warm embraces and tears than
the others, not only because
completed the exchange, but
because the invasion leaders
had waited until the others
were out before they came.
Nevertheless, the very last
prisoner off the plane-Luis
Mo se Delgado-had to side-
step to avoid a crowd more
interested in seeing and hear-
ing James B. Donovan, the New
York lawyer who had negoti-
ated the exchange.
Mr. Morse, a tall, thin man,
a
d
was crying as he walked to
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