SPY RING SEIZURE REPORTED BY CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200760004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 13, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

SPY RING SEIZURE 10 Baptist preachers, were ar
rested and accused of espionage,i
subversion and illegal currency
deals. The two Americans, who
:REPORTED BY CUBA are still in prison, were sched-
' NEW YORK TIMES
Sanitized Approved 08T Ae5e : CIA-R
31''Arrested in Camaguey
-Execution Possible
By PAUL IIOT MANN
Special to The New York Times
HAVANA, May 12 a an-
liatilleed tudxy t! ., lb 11K
covered a network of persons
spying for the United States and
said they would "receive merited
punishment from revoluntionary
Justice." This seems to mean
mass execution. r
Thirty-one "counterrevolution-
arses" were reported to have
t been arrested in the region of
V Camaguey, a city of 120,000 peo-
ple in' eastern Cuba and a center
of the island's sugar industry.
The State Security Department
of Camaguey alleged' that the
arrested persons had regularly
c received money orders from the
United States Central Intelli-
~gence Agency and had supplied
military and economic informa-
tion using invisible ink and other
seemingly "sure and refined es-
by- the C.I.A."
An increased search by the
Castro regime for spy suspects,
saboteurs and other.counterrev.
i olutlonaries has been going on
across the Island In recent weeks.
On April 23 the regime' an.
1nounced the arrest of eight a]-
, leged spies who were said to
y have operated in the Camaguey
railroad depot.
Earlier a department head of
~ tho Havana waterfront customs
"office was 'executed on charges
k? .b ...(j. u"-" ~" IIIVYtl-
nient of ships in the harbor to
the C.I.A. Two United States'
k vvaynesboro,'.Ga., and, his son-
i in-law, the Rev. James David
Pte, 31, of Omega, Ga., and..at
led to appear before the
1 shrdlucmfwyp
avana Revolutionary Tribunal
his morning, but late last night
he trial was postponed to Fri.
ay.
Recent arrests for alleged ac-
ivities against the regime in,
ludo that of a well-known phy.?
ian, Dr. Jesus Iglesias de 'a
orre and
arge with having been in
gence Agency.
Today's announcement from
Camaguey charged that the
arrested persons had channeled
some of their secret inform"; through the United States
naval base of Guantanamo in
southeast Cuba. This - was the
first mention of Guantanamo by
the Cuban press in some time.
According to the security
services, Information. from
Camaguey has been sent by
mail to Cuban residents in the
city of Guantanamo, close to
the United States naval instal-
lation. Those who were said to
have received the espionage,
letters .were among the 500 Cu-
ban workers who still commute,
between Cuban territory and-
Two women were reported to
be among those arrested. One'
was said to have been found in
possession of C.I.A. money,
orders and of espionage.instruc%;
tions. The second woman al1eg-;
edly-`distributed funds among
and especial papers And, chemi.