'CIA FUNDS' TO AID RANSOM OF POWS IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200020011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 11, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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i the unitea
rwritt the shipment of $13
illion " i.n food and drugs
CJ4A Funds' to
in. POWs Cuba
ezpectedbGovernment funds to be used for part cif
the cost,. of ransoiping mo a than a thousand Cuban
invasion' prisoner .
They said their information was that she furi i ,
would be ma :lr a ailable Qttt of tlw tpp-secret budgt
e Central Intelilgeii.,:
~Ipredid tial LL ala t. ~n
"ri pe 'Minister Fuel Cas
1,. }onov,~ti; negoti ted w i
Agent.
~'~`D3R6F~rriatr~r"r~rr~nnn 7~,.,~.
;;Pigs ina>:
?illioiiig to. _:
for
Cuban Families C,oiniait(
said, lafer that "the nego
tionS Will. last tW , OF tlifi
mbre i ectings bet, use a
But Mrs. Bei Uax-:
1oU`s
b7n. e? ingioii .re
e , oo and medici q
lonovaii has
ather than contribute ha it
urreney to Cuba's industri k`
nd military buildup. Thic
mount presumably woulc'
augmented by private
ubscriptions raised by the
i'amilies Committee.
(Donovan said in San Fran-
cisco in August that the
Committee had acquired
pledges for $27 million in
foodstuffs and other mate-
rial and some money--in the
millions - also had been
raised.
(He. said he had f o u n d
State Department officials
"sympathetic" to the private
efforts.)
State Department and
White House officials de-,
dined comment on any as
pect of the private negotia-
lions between Castro and
Donovan, hired by the pris-
oners' families to represent
them. One source close to
the negotiations cautioned
late yesterday: "This thing is
not wrapped up by far."
The Kennedy Administra-
tion did take steps to deny a;
story in the New York World
Telegram acid Sun that Dono-'
van. the Democratic nominee
for the Senate in New York,
is acting as the Administra-
,tort/
`l'he ti b d S
aaid to nova was asked
.)y torne ral Robert
bA Gene
1enne 3` last June to 1:
~,1detake tho assignment.
Senator 43ohn J. Willian .
(Rep-Del.) urged the Presi-
i4 dent to deny reports that
_j Government funds would:
help in any ransom. He said
'I the idea of such action dis-
turbed him. -..,--other enunf.riaa ri ,t v .".rr
E\ J as s :rare with Cuba while at the
decloratiO fl w
iop w itepresenta
tiwue ~ti`iilisE
I citizen to negotiate $dO fli l~
Fla.), ho said-, 1 , r E :ton in trade with. Cuba,
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