CUBANS EXECUTE 4 EXILE RAIDERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600420008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK TIMES
CPYRGHT
CUBANS EXECUTE ''.
By United Press International
Declare Group Left Mianiai
in Heavily Armed Craft
to Attempt Infiltration
o have been naval aide to d5
enbed today that theide Cuba,
nterior Miuister Sarttia,go Ver executed, in, Havana had been four men
'ulgcncio Batista. He was al-1 Spokesmen for the junta here
eged to have been recruited by: and in Miami, as well as other
he C.I.A. as an agent while highly qualified sources, insist-
n exile in Venezuela. ed that the four men belonged
The announcement said the, to a private 'group dedicated to
smuggling people out of Cuba.
roue had been trained in Con They said that Mr.. Vidal San-
ral America under orders, oftiago was known to have gone
r. Ray, who was ' Premier', to Cuba about two months ago,
'idcl Castro's first Public' The view here was that the
or acs Minister. Mr. Ra}) Castro. regime deliberately tried'
lodged earlier this month' to to link the executed men with
the Ray operation to create the
eturn to Cuba by May 20 impression that its security
aba's Independence Day, :td forces had been successful in
cad internal opposition to Pre= apprehending the junta's infil-
ier Ca,.Aro? trators.
As far as Mr. Ray was con
Sp,cliil to The new York Timex. corned, his associates in i iorida
WASHINGTON, May 28, _''reported that no direct word ha
he. Cuban' Revolutionary et been received from him.
JLVU611- 11c lb licileved E6 nave
oft his Caribbean, base eight
lays ago and, to have entered
it
IIAVANA, may 26- e cu-
ban Government announced. to-
day the execution by firii'g
squad of four exiles described
as United States spies.
The men were said to have
been executed before dawn aft-
er their conviction by a war.
crimes board and the rejection
of appeals for a retrial.
The Government said' the men
shad been captured off th~.north
coast of Las Villas Province,
in the center of the island,
while.. seeking to infiltrate;
Cuba. The date of their capture
was,not disclosed,
The official announcement; .
charged that four were "agents'
of the' Central')' Intelligone6!
Agency." It identified them as
members of the . anti-Castro.'
Revolutionary Junta headed by'
Manuel Ray.
The leader of the infiltration
group was identified as Felipe,
heir weapons,.:-6i!cluding the'
raft's 20-mm,. ' 'cannon, over-
oard when they. saw they,were
bout to be captured, the an-
ouncement said.. - ., ;:? .:..,, :.;'s::
CPYRGHT
Vidal Santiago, a former Cubans
Navy officer. The others Verei
identified as Ladislao Gonzalez
Benitez, Elias Rivera Bello and
Alfredo Valdes Linares.
Weapons Thrown Overboard
The announcement said the.
en had embarked for Cuba 'ins
heavily armed vessel from
Miami. It said they had halted
riefly at Cayo Anguilla, a Ba-
amas islet, presumably for re-
ueling. .
Cuban fishermen were said
o have detected the group and
o have notified. the Cuban
oast Guard: The; exiles threw
uba between last Friday and
Saturday.
Arrangements had been made
or Mr. Ray to communicate by
adio with his associates
broad, but the junta's spokes-
lien stressed today that at the
. :line of his deliberately public-
zed departure they had fully
xpected. that he would "lay
ow" for a period.
No news is good news," one
f Mr. Ray's associates in Mia-
i said today.
The United States continued
o take the position that it hlti
o links with the Ray opera
ion and the other efforts by
uban exiles. to resume hostili-
ies against the Castro regime.
Officials reiterated that the
dministration stood on, its
11; ormal statements that it op-
osed an
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rom United States territory.
hey refused to discuss what
oiicy might be adopted shdnld
r. Ray or any other refugee
eader Openly -requested aid,:
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