WHY IS U.S. HARASSING 'INVADERS'?

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400200032-4
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November 11, 2016
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December 14, 1998
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November 11, 1963
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NOV 1 1 T`$_53 Sanitized -Approved For Release : CIA-RD FOIAb3b CPYRGHT Edith K. Roosevelt Why is U.S. Harassing ? , rs'. ere--Con seated at, t' !air?irt a World War II Mane to two Americans 1110 fly raids over Cuba. The plan,,, ail unarmed Flearcat 8F, helori?s to pilot VF iiliam John- -oil of Fort L:rur?s r ?.xis, Fla., and New York e p o r t e r Alex Rorke J I. '' I?on't ,, .. ?.IJlosophy tc. nip. customs to red W ail( i' Shanley was quoted as : tt int, trio the pair pro tested that tzhanley did not have a court order. for the federal govern meat's s~ i~ur+ of their plane o;t Oct. 2o. C 11's ; u iii Ot.!Ii:Urit les -`3 id thi' were Set/ill Tto' plane on suspicion of illegal eypnrt. Rorke and Johnson arc' now trying to recover their plane through the, courts. They list thin illegal rind arbitrary seizure" harassments they Il;rva still'' tl,e a fministr;r- lion nlerni;s r' of Idle U.S. Free. n i j , ' ;7 ,?rS. cIuuP (Ii'dIi'.tIL'II to lxnce raid. 'T'here may ho a reason why tha l'reeiionl 1''igiitri:= 8re a special Ir. t itall t tc - : in 1>envrr - Cllr l::an ? rlatlg11 01i' is a!n t l?fetfessi' ;a of ol'I nt>-tViii 2>Vi rn!rle;lt. Ii. c'h.rrie: al~l.,~, ' !I~' 1'r^~. dgil; i~it ht? y who :.err eI t- ill 01111,hed irl ., .n: lil'r-'o 15 il'Ll. the ,. f d v1i a1111I~trallnil fill It utile?. ..tan 'i :rli ;i ,r. slit ing t h it aborted C.';:br.,~ -tsien a t i e nt p t last ':prim;. 11 1r story, tt'Itich in- ~Ilgtilll;i t.~ +'1 eeltoni l'iahtrvs are I family owned CMQ, the bi !ire daring - uerrilla eommand ~?. hr,, fought Iiatist and then Cas . taping from a Castro jail t ;Irt;c the fight, for Cuban free tin April It. ]!k;2, the CIA pu hese men out to sea from Key West 'la.. in an S-knot Liberty ship, th hanta Ana. The Cubans were tol nen at the mouth of the A4ocamb ;tver in southern Oriente province few miles cast of Guantanamo iut two days earlier Herrera an ix of his men were incapacitate turn injuries recctt?cri when som limn naval baso where they wer ';n 11 Y, this incident must have beet ct .lwn to the high State Departmen 1iticials and others involved in plan 1-ig the Cubsut operation. terground fighters ashore to genie hem and guide there to safety. For- imately, their advance patrol boat tl'uck a reef which had .tot. been parted on the map furnished them cy CIA. The delay enabled them to iscover before landing that some U(Ii Castro troops were "by cncc" waiting, for them on the (''I 11. ')rdc?rs from the'?t'iiite iiou,e halt- , action by ;i,"~(ft r omhai-reads' Ma- Ines stationed at Vieques, 1:i,0(Xl larine and Army troops who were 'and on tlti northenn coast of the the Ma rill'- forces at Istltatlatrie) \tho n''l'e I!o hike Sill- go, the '-crord !ar^,st ('li :11 I as I is s to different groups, is as iiefore the Cuban invasion t h e central Intelligence Agency rounded up an elite of 13; Young American- educatod Cubans whose background and eriucr'.li