CUBA FREES U.S. EMPLOYEE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200650015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 17, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

BALTIMORE SU1t SEP 17 1960
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tonight after being held 40 hours
by Cuban secret police who ac-
cused her and an American group
of spying.
Three Americans not identified
with the United States Embassy
were still held..
Another, identified as Robert L.
Neet, and said by the Cuban Gov-
ernment to be an Embassy em-
ployee, was ordered expelled from
Cuba along with Mrs. Lennox. The
Embassy said it did not know of
any employee named ~eet. His
identity is being investigated.
Mrs. Lennox was report in
CIIBA FREES N)'
111S1 EM?LOYEE.
,Embassy Secretary Ordered
Expelled After Release
Havana, Sept. 16 f1Pl -Mrs. Mar-,, The note said as the result of
an investigation of the activities
jorie Lennox, a United States:of these three, Mrs. Lennox and
Embassy secretary, was released; Neet, were arrested. Neet was
identified only as an embassy em-
ployee.
An embassy spokesman said he
could not discuss or clarify the
charges.
Shortly before Mrs. Lennox was
released Cuban authorities said
she was being held for' "inter
ference in Cuba's internal of-'
fairs."
Case Is Referred
The embassy spokesman said.
she was taken immediately after'
her 'release to the suburban resi-i
dence of United States Ambassa-
dor Philip Bonsai. .l
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She said she had not been mss-; s
;said. Bonsai said Mrs. Lennox did+
treated by Prime Minister Fidel nut want to see anybody. 1
Castro's secret police, who in-i1 "It was quite an ordeal," Bon-4'
vaded her downtown Havana;;.sal said. He said the case had:
apartment early Thursday atttt;l:ecu referred to the State De?
held her incommunicado for hours.jl,ar mment in Washington.
Charges Unknown Mrs. Lennox, a divorcee, was'
She said police refused:'to tell hold at her apartment ten hours'
her why she was jailed. ' chile secret police questioned
A spokesman said the embassyiher and searched the apartment.,
.had received a note from the men she was taken to police
Lennox's release accusing her of
!espionage and saying the charges
Would be followed up.
The note charged that Mrs. Len-
,nox "along with other embassy
personnel engaged in espionage
and conspiratorial activities."
The note said Mrs. Lennox was
detained after Cuban military po-
lice had rounded up other person,
,including three Americans, after
~what:?was called suspicious move-
ment in the downtown apartment
house where Mrs. Lennox lived.
These persons were identified
In the note as Eustace Dan
Brunet, Edmundo Transke and
Daniel L. Carswell. t '
headquarters..
The United States made re
peated protests over her seizure.
A United -States Embassy wet-f
fare officer who talked to Mrs:;
Lennox today was the first Ameri!
can associate . permitted to inte
w her since her arrest. ' j
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