DONOVAN PROLONGS AGONY DEALING W ITH DICTATORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100390077-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: November 20, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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vnovan P'
~.~~ :~`~gs Agony
.dealing ~?~~th ,~,Dic~~xtors
t or T e Herald: Regard-
less of the humanitarian mo-
tive in the current effort of
attorney James ?B. Donovan
to make a de'a~ with Castro
to exchange $62 million worth
of medicine and drugs for in-
vas~on prisoners, I believe thhat
the harm this transaction
wou1EI do fear ~iztweigha the
ben;~jts, for` it "would further
the cause. of communism in
Cuba.
with. his prisoner exchange
plan, for he stated .in Syracuse
on October 25 that President
Kennedy's quarantine of Cuba
. has .not made the mission im-
possible, and that his negoti-
ations have nothing to do with
American foreign policy.
A:~u somewhat similar situa-
tion has recently occurred :n
West Germany (Readers Di-
gest,. October) where Chancel-
lor Konrad Adenauer tias been
In spite of the Cuban crlsis,~' , " ~ _ _- --
~r. Donot~az~ i~ going ahead COns~~l4~C;ing gr0nting $,25Q mll-
IIOn acr'~it sought by East Ger-
inariy ibr coal, food and heavy
rglti ment. News reports state
tha ~ tremendous protest
ag ~~ t pxo~rosal has aris-
en 'tie" 'of mail frpm
peog3'e throw ont Red Ger-
many, and tha East Germans
are writ 'V~e would rather
atarve t~E Ade!h.auer ix=
t(~tld~.lL~yf ~ p to t.ilP 1'~e~lc,
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ur only -hope :is chat com-
tunism fails."
E believe we should serious-
` coaisider the consequences
foie makin;; any kind of a
nsom deal tvii:h ruthless dic-
tors w1u> ~~ is be satisfied
ith ;nothing less than world.
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