PRISONERS' RELEASE SET FOR SUNDAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100390015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 22, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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f1 Q11 'f& "the cream of Cuba's young
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scribed by officials here ?'.
the abortive invasion at the
Bay of Pigs in April, 1961.
They all were sentenced to
long prison terms for their
[r I part in that invasion.
For S~l lll~~~a T s~ tT I Last April, Castro ransomed
60 of the more seriously ill
Castro Seals Deal;
Food, Medi(llle
To Be Exchaiiged
By James E. Clayton
Staff Reporter
ban prisoners held by Pre
mier Fidel Castro far al
most two years will begi
early Sunday morning.
formal agreement under
which the prisoners weir
avaaac~.t LVl 'Poo 111i11IUi
in food, medicine and med
deal supplies was signed in
The agreement was an
Gen. Lucius Clay, chairman
of the Cuban Families Advis-
1ory Committee, and E. Roland
America n~"7,
I Under the 'terms, of the
.1 i agreement, the African Pilot,
Ia freighter now lolling sup-
plies in Port Everglades, Fla.,
will sail for Havana Saturday
afternoon. At the same time,
20 planeloads of additional
supplies will be readied at
Opa-locka Air Base at Miami
for immediate shipment. Those
planes will begin. shuttling
back and forth to Havana at 6
a. m. Sunday.
The agreement says that 20
per cent of the $53 million in
supplies will be delivered to,
Cuba before the prisoners are!
released. The rest of the sup-
plies may then be delivered
some time before next July 15.
Ship in Readiness
The hope here is that the
four cargo planes will be al-
lowed to return to Miami.
with able-bodied prisoners.
'Another ship, the Wappen von
' Hanibul g, will remain in Mi-:
ami`.esdy to leave for Havana.
immediately if it is needed to
carry prisoners who are too'
ill to make the trip by plane.
and wounded men for $2.5 mil-
lion in cash. He had demanded
cash. for the remaining men
and had set a price on each
man's freedom.
Crisis Interrupts
York attorney who engineered
the exchange of Russian spy
Rudolph 1. Abel for U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers last year,
prisoners.
The deal. had almost been?
closed when the crisis over
uba arose in October. Nc. lo-
iations were renewed as soon I and on the Pan American! are planning to receive and
Within the last few days, twill ear?ry supplies to Havana' ihcy land in. Miami. Reports
any of,
undreds of manufacturers in and prisoners back to Miami. from Cuba indir a
,
the United States have shipped] "Speed is essential In _mak- the prisoners are seriously Ill!
these, "as"we'll as the 'c'ost of Gen Alfred M. Gruenther, medical care.
trafsportation, have been con- president of the Red Cross, Red Cross officials have
tributed to the Red Cross, of- said. "We are doing all pos- called the operation the larg-
ficials hire said. They insist Bible to ensure, that the pris- est It has ever undertaken in
that rlo d&ern ent funds or oners will be back among terms of relief supplies being=
sup ples -Involved .in the loved one$by Christmas." handled to meet human suffer-
e tc'ht t ' = e?' ing. In termi of supplies, its
?
Care Planned us-single' opera
Thy Red Cross said last Ageney
largest previo
ilealth,Jtion involved' 18 million in
night that'it has morelthanj The Department ofJ
$11 million in supplies alrcadyjEducation and. Welfare' and the aftermath of floods, in the
As of late yesterday, More
than '700,QOOk, ,ourids of sup-
,.plies hat been fll[rovrx to Flor-
ida by 10 xl}a or of"rlines. Much
more was V .n its way via rail,
roads ,*td truer:-.
Thi re A to breakdown im-
medfately ' atl~a.i fl able of. what ,is:
in the 5.11lon?dollar pack-
age. It wakunderstotd to con-
tain im re tiwan-$20 ntliltoii In
food, inueffof it for ba f?afltt
m.bre'tha'n mitliort:. n drugs
and " dther"li*d;'s Ines. The bat
ance Is maV -Ur of:' Medical
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