CUBAN DENIES PLANE PLEDGE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600230013-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
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dIIBAN DENIES
PLANE PLEDGE
Says U.S. Did Not Promise,
Invasion Air Support
too U.S. citizens due to leave
Cuba tomorrow... . ......Page 2
Washington, Jan. It (A.--A Cuban
Bay of Pigs invasion leader said
today it is not true that the?
%enture collapsed because the'
United States failed to provide
Promised air support.
Jose A. Perez San Roman said
the had received no indication or
uromise that such support would
he forthcoming.
"We had our own planes, but,
they were knocked out." said
t'eerez San Roman, commander of
th 2506t.h Brigade of the Cuban
lil.cration armed forces.
A Controversial Point
The question of support by,
united States forces has iteen one,
of the most controversial Points in
public discussions of the ill-fated,
1961 attempt by Cuban rebels to.
overthrow Premier Fidel Castro.::
The Kennedy Administration has`,:.
maintained official silence on the
point,
[Editor's note-Tonight the'
White House declined to comment
but agreed, when questioned on provided by the United Sta
L
Asked wheth?r? fir had ever re-,General. Robert F: Kennedy, who.
ceived any incitation that airjcalled him "Pepe" and said: "1 ..
cover for the in?r.osicn would be
,,;appreciste this
San Roman ahooli his head. y+y4itr?m the brigade to the Attorney
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pP - cou rave knocked The brigade commander pre. ,
Castro's planes f-nm the akv." I . . .. I
o re u an rebels] own."
One veteran of the Invasion, ? The brigade commander vytla
Manuel Penabaz, wrote In a news-
magazine article that Perez San among 1.113 prisoners liberated
Roman had called unsuccessfully Christmas Eve after more than
,during the invasion for cover by .twenty months in Castro prison
jet airplanes. He said the request Camps.
was made in a ccrnnnmication Still appearing thin and tined;
with an American ship, but, the;he begged off from further discus
.rebels "looked in vain for the air
sion of the invasion,
'su ort th t II
ministration at no time promised "N0o
" he repeated. "We had
oar '.
all. cover t tl (' b , "
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