CIA BETRAYS CUBA, U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200220004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

A former commander-in.
chief of the Cuban Air Force
,-said in Oklahoma City Mon.
`..day America's Central In-
tellj,gccgep is iimport-
ing Communist agents from
Cuba.
Maj. Pedro . Diaz Lanz,
who participated in the Bay
of Pigs invasion, said the
CIA is betraying this country
by'sending agents into Cuba.
"They train underground
fighters and. send them to
CIA.
"After a little while the
I Iunderground fighter whose
name was given is, `cap-
tured," he said.
Diaz Lanz, who speaks be-
fore the Oklahoma City
Speakers Forum Inc., Mon-
day night said Cuban -d-
nti
-
1-he
the island, then ask them for
names of other underground
for us just as I predicted,":
Castro fighters now don'ts he said..
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the Bay of Pigs invasion. air force. of Guatemala just
"Before. the invasion,.` the before the invasion.
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CIA you might say," he!
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.CIA was training top Com-
munists for leading posi.
tions," he said.
"It's strange that none
the leaders were killed off.'
warned the United States ' ofl
the Communist infiltration
before the invasion.
"The leader was a well-'
known Communist," he as-:,.
serted. "He was Manuel Ar-)
da." 1
Today anti-Castro fighters?;
are depressed to, realize the.,
CIA brings . Castro Cubans,
over from the island, he
said.
Diaz Lanz said he landed
at Oriente Province.. during
the invasion.
and threatened with extradi-
tion, he said.
"But look back at.it and
over at Vietnam,"' be sayyy~~s,
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