CUBA PRISONER TALKS-NO PACT YET, ONLY HOPE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200020058-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: October 1, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/08/25: CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200020058-1
Cuba Priisoner
Talks-No Pact
Yet, Only Hope,
By Ralph Chapman
Of The IrercLdTribune Staff
,lames B. Donovan, ne
ig the release of 1,11 ,Cuban
f -Pigs invasion last year, sai
esterday that then aS be,
ome progress but ,1:3 o fins
greement . with t , C$atr
Reached- in jf*VftrAkhY We
bone. Mr.l or ,; '
,,?atic candida for.U.: a
rnator f>a niteTor,
n?anded sttlieler tik ,tie rue'
ll la
lave been. 119204$0N-
own to this ufltry?1s "rio
rue." The,ri r gaindd Wid
eceptance g Cuban ref
]gees in iVT ' ?, and else
[here, but York lawye
egotiatto.
Idol
been made;'.' said, "but n
inal agreem t 'has bee
reached ... I "hoperemai
here until I can-bring the
the prisoners) out tth me.'
IMrs. Berta } , ai
intermediary In vane
negotiations, e3011 op
timisiii yesterda ear
agreement for tit spore;`s
release. Unites! _ : 'Inter
national quoted here as say
ing: Pashas 'SuricaY ,j
Mondae y asu n d !ann ncemen
will bW are ver
optimistic, h' t 1auntil the
nothing will be *d."] Mr. Donovan talked !wit
Premier Fidel Castro for o
than seven hours an I??riday
the Havana hoxa.e... of . Mr
Barreto. whose son ids` one
the prisoners. Mrs. irreto h
been acting as liaison betwe
the CastrWitat ent and t
Cuban F11tt f
biberatioAt
Another meeth be'ween
Donovan and Castro >' sche
hat a~i an( others to whom
he s. x eels'ee. `.`very cou r -
tet
Soon after the invasion faled.I
in Arii 1961,, the Castro gov
ernmeit announced that t
wo ase. the prisoners apor,
p Girt of a $62 million casts
"?i amity." Latefta group
ww 'leased end irri
court to the 1lnlted s help -wise the money. ~ ..
la',eOi pricorr.,i has *41 ix:;
vide 1 piece gait and thejaa tar
of 41 ra* bpreataken adiea tat.:
of 41ar 'fact to ransort~ fcl
one$,. ricrs as high asI Upe
then, release b the tus4.
U- (3iici ?Fra rcLS Gary
in Chan e to,- Dlidalf
is trying to get Castro4to ac:.
cept ;goods instead Of eash,T1'ir
Cuban leader was-willing
one time to accept t actors al
other machinery, belt the deal j-
fell through. II
Now being offered are foo~i;ll
medicines and other simiiaw!
item, known to be in short
supply in Cuba.
Large amount of such ma-
vd,
terial have been pledge by
variety of groups and indi I
viduals in this country. ,but, it!
is understood that the pled^r .;
are far from the equivalent o,
the cash demands. It is b!,
lieved that Mr. Donovan has
been dickering also for a utter
total payment and some ?'t of
installment arrangement,.
Guarded Hope
Ue first went to Havan+t;, a'
the?aheginning of last month aft -".
rei' iained fotir days. Upon li.i
return at that time. after 'D
four -and-a-half-hour talk =sri?i,
Cast;t tr, lie expressed Rua'?u
optimism.
Mr. Donovan left Ne'x^ Yo
Tuesday for the current seric,
of #: ask& aithbii:;h. he was sui
feri;ag severely from bursitis io
his right shoulder. By the tirtz~
sr wUS.s-
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