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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100390046-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: December 18, 1962
• Content Type: TRANS

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(CUBANS)
DECEMBER 18, 1962
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MIAMI--ARRANGEMENTS WERE REPORTED BEING MADE TODAY TO MASS
SUPPLIES IN THE MIAMI AREA FOR THE RANSOM OF 1,113 CAPTURED CUBAN
INVADERS, WHO MAY BE FREED FROM FIDEL CASTRO'S PRISONS BEFORE
CHRISTMAS.
A SPOKESMAN FOR TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES SAID IT HAS BEEN ASKED
TO FLY 150 TONS OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES---PRESUMABLY PART OF THE MULT
MILLION-DOLLAR RANSOM---FROM NEW YORK TO AN AIRFIELD NEAR MIAMI
TOMORROW.
THE FREIGHTER AFRICAN PILOT, UNDER CHARTER TO THE AMERICAN R
CROSS, LEFT BALTIMORE YESTERDAY ON THE WAY TO MIAMI WITH ORDERS T
STAND BY "IN ANTICIPATION OF AN AGREEMENT" ON THE RELEASE OF THE
PRISONERS.
DETAILS OF THE RANSOM DEAL HAVE NEVER BEEN MADE PUBLIC. AT
ONE POINT* CASTRO DEMANDED $62 MILLION FOR THE RELEASE OF THE PR I
BUT HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE AGREED TO ACCEPT SUPPLIES OF LESS VALU
NEW YORK ATTORNEY JAMES B. DONOVAN, WHO HAS BEEN NEGOTIATING
FOR THE RELEASE OF THE PRISONERS, FLEW TO MIAMI SUNDAY NIGHT. IT
WAS BELIEVED HERE THAT HE HAS REQUESTED AND RECEIVED PERMISSION T
GO TO CUBA,, PRESUMABLY TO WORK OUT FINAL DETAILS OF THE DEAL.
12/18--PA924AES
~ONEES,
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