SPY RING SEIZURE REPORTED BY CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400150001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 13, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

NBW YORK TIMES
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HAVANA, May 12-Cuba an- m,.....,: Iglesias e a
CPYRGHT'
SPY RING SEIZURE
REPORTED BY CUB
31 Arrested in Camaguey
,-Execution Possible
By PAUL HOI+MANN
I nounceo today that it had un-
covered a network of persons
spying f`or the United States and
i said they would "receive merited
punishment from revoluntionary
justice." This seems to mean
mass execution. .
Thirty-one "counterrevolution-
arles" were reported to have
'I been arrested in the region of
': Camaguey, a city of 120,000 peo-
I? pie 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
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-
pionage devices made available
by the C.LA."
An increased search by the
Castro regime for spy suspects,
saboteurs and other counterrev
olutionaries has been going on
across the island In recent weeks.
On April 23 the regime' an-
nounced the arrest of eight al-
leged spies who were said to
have operated in the Camaguey
i.railroad depot.
I11 Earlier a department head of
the Havana waterfront customs
"office was executed on charges
of having signaled the move-
t,ment of ships in, the harbor to
t''the C.I.A. Two United States t. Baptist ministers, the Rev. Her-
i' bert Caudill
6
10 Baptist preachers, 'were ar
rested and accused of espionage,
subversion and illegal currency
deals. The two Americans, who
are still in prison, were sched-
uled to appear before the.
al shrdlucmfwyp
Havana Revolutionary Tribunal
this morning, but late last night
the trial was postponed to Fri-
day.
Recent arrests for alleged ac-
tivities against the regime in, I
elude that of a well-known h :
a,.u uer persons
c arge with ]laving been in
tact With the C~entraFIntblli-
gence Agency.
r
Camaguey charged that the
arrested persons. had channeled
some of their secret informk-
tion 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 the United States base.
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 alleg-!
ed]y distributed funds amonga
the other operatives df thenet.
work.
The.security service is state
to have seized code message-.
cats tar
Invisible writing, u iii
.
1 . years old, of
Waynesboro,,.Ga., and. his son.
Jn-law, the Rev. James David
te, 31, of Omega
Gaand
t
,
a
.,., Bast 1, Cubans, including about
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