HIGH CUBAN AIDE SHOT AS C.I.A. SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400150016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 7, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approvedy, Fke se?f.~ g4-RDP
JUN 7 1964
CPYRGHT
Sanitized
IGU CUBAN riIDE
SI FT AS C.I.A. SPY
Provincial Minister Is Eighth
fi'cia.1 of the Castro regime
die before a firing squad was fhad hoarded the Cubana air-
lnlquc said today. Miner for the afternoon flight
Cesar Diaz Infante, Oriente to Santiago, Cuba's seconds
largest city, which is in Oriente
Province director of the internal Province in the cast.
commerce ministry, was: shot as
a United States Central Intel-
ligence Agency operative. Ral RlicNe," `Dela.y'
He was the eighth Cuban to SpeclattoT The New?Y m'kTln1C
be executed in eight days. All; NASSAU, The.Bahabas,.h,ne.
were convicted by revolutionai;v 6-`-Manuel RAY, 39-year-o1Cl,
tribunals. of being C.I.A. spies. Cuban exile leader whose :it
T b h` f f +1, O'cnte, tempt to enter Cuba to enga;;cj
c ri
SANTIAGO, Cub'c, 'June 61. i4
le ing les -ran sing 01- In i
WO su c re S o
? i in undcr~rouncl activities tiaas!
? banoiaadn Francisco
Satur ino Polo n SPi foiled Monday, when he a.nd
nero, received unspecified "soft' seven companions were pir?Iced
prison" sentences. , up by British authorities 30
miles north of the island, do-I
Said to Be Abent 2 Years I scribed his stay in Nassau
Mr. Diaz infante was specific- today as a "small unfortunate
ally charged with being a C.I.A. delay."
agent for two years, formerly Air. Ray spoke before board
providing' information on mili' in a flight to Miami. Ile say:.}
. wife and five
tary installations and coastal he lives with I
geography, and lately furnish-; children; with the intention of
ing complete, official food dis-' being in Cuba May 2i1, 1.1.
tribution data. He was also ac_ j anniversary of Cuban
cused of, snarling Government; pendence. But Ile ch:uigcd;
food and spare a t deliveries, plans, he said, when Premier!
The most reedit bxecutionsl Fidel Castro announced a na-'l
before yesterday's loccurred in: tionwide mobilization.
Camaguey June 2, when Alber-~ "I consider the mobilization)
to Fernandez', :1, t hisser wealthy: a victory for us because it;
cattleman and officer of the; showed fear for us, but we took
advantage of the situation and
shot shot Lions with b two Intern alleged ational, C'.L, j},A,; eh ed plans," be said.
a. '
,1l anrgn,.f2ay ? said that a motor;
cco day's s. o - of ill(, 'exiles' oat broke dwoiiat two shcommunique sridi. Monday. "We considered it of
ent to'
fused the "through fear" ears to pahald borrce.r srn i 91ll1ila. Key problem to fix and? it," :w he said
.
cte,i Diaz Infante's espiona r.~ We intended to wait till night-
a
activit ties, but had helped i fall to attempt to :enter Cuba."
the economic sabotage. 'lincirj 31 was at Anguila *sey, a
"stiff" sentences were ta.kcn tv Liitish possession, tl' c a Brit-
nlean 30 years; the iryoinlinn. : islr destroyer, assisted by 'Unit-,
Three other ministry of i'ou; cd States aircraft, apprehended
;were arrested on the growler: tile 'party. They acre brow-alt
that they knew of the sollver-! to Nassau and Pined on charges,
live activity but failed to report of lnrbiging. firoo,rins into Brit-
it. nSh telltory..
The statement said that .1.U? ,
Diaz Infante "confessed bet'. g'i
an agent of the C.I.A." It addrd1
that he sent information Lo tv'
?Unitrva States -agenoy throl%_b.,
an alleged couinterrcvnhttinne?.,~vl
organization. Ti>e. organization
was, not. nall.10'.
- Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R0004
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