SLAIN EXILES HOPED TO STOP 'BETRAYAL'?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300160006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-001
. MAY 2 9 1964
Zain' Exiles - ffope~
a
TQStOp Tetrayal'9
By DON BOIINING Ine men a any ties
wi
Of Our Latin America Staff
Exile e e e i
Santiago and three comps
Ions, whose executions wer
announced by the Castro r
gime, died attempting to pr
vent "another betrayal of th
Cuban people" Vidal's organ.
ization said here Thursday.
tary-general of the Unite
Front of, National Liberatio
(FULN); said Vidal, 38, an
the other three exiles id
tifled as Ladislao Gonzale
Benitez, Elias Rivera Beil
and Alfredo Valdes Linare
-- had been in Cuba sinc
March 14..
The Cuban governmen
announced early Thursday
the men were captured of
the north coast of Las Villa
Province, convicted by a C
Nana' Fortress War. Crime
Board,, their appeals dense
and their execution ordered
The announcement did no
say- when the men were cap
The Castro governmen
accused the men of bcin
,agents of the Central Intelii
tionary Junta (JURE).
Nunez said the charge Wa
d".with the CIA or JURE.
tJRE spokesman also dense
Vidal's. mission, Nun e'z
claimed, "was to expose and
block a plan by the Cuban'
Communist Old Guard -- led,
sition were to organize a.
men t."
Nunez, the Cuban govern-
ment would he given a "new
look" in the U.S., with Castro
quasi-Socialist regime contin-
uerl. He didn't say how Vidal
The Cuban government
dour exiles had embarked for;
The announcement . said
Cuban fishermen saw
group, and notified the Coasts
Guard. The men threw theirs
captured, the announcement
in the Cuban. Embassy in?
Venezuela in the early days Qf,.
Vidal was one of some, 30
.claimed,. "constant pressure f
.was maintained against all:
.activities of Vidal and, our
NW Seventh St., with his
wife Raquel and four chit
' dren, the oldest 11. and the
youngest 5 months.
Another of, the executed,'
Rivera Bello, was Identified.`
'Inalambrica Telegraph.Co.,1ny,