DONOVAN OFF TO CUBA, AIMS TO FREE 1,113

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200030007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 1, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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To Cuba, A*IMS
To Fj:e 1,113
by R T McDONALI)
With
ccess of his mission, attorney 1 . I)onevan
It New York for Havana yesterday to try to win
lease of 1,113 anti-Castroites captui^ed` in last
ar's Bay of Pigs invasion.
Donovan, who negotiated the release 'of U-2
ancis Gary Powers from a Soviet prison in exehan for
ussian spy'Rudolf Abel, denied that any ransom ~V''lfae
fered "as such ' or .the captives on' hom Fidt t stro
~l
$ " ? ,,,
s put a i ice tag.
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'If money aiff .in
press conf e-he left full responsibility for' he ill-fated
+rure as considerations, he said. Ife ,and he didn't-Low-If he
e described tlitl mission as
itted Washington hies declared
is sympathy with ' the ol,iec.
CPYRGHT
Fames B. Donovan
Asks prayers for mission
Exiles Go With Him
Donovan i acting ':as }g?ei ri':rl
mnrittee ftq? Liberation ff:I'ris-
. Ernesto Freyre, secretary.
th have sons among the cap-
enient To nnission last week
his trip -aid ihe time and
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
ion to These lirisonel:'s, lioali `.:iS.
.aid. The :1,113 include lies, Protestants and Jews; they
are white and Negro; they are
professional men and t.r