NEWSMAN'S OBJECIVITY STRAINED CONFUSION HURT CUBAN INVASION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600420026-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 18, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

ly MAN'S OBJE
Confusion
By PAUL R. RYAN
Patriot Ledger Stag' Writer
The --fish-- are huhivuger wsai-'-
ning 4n the Bay of Plge. A year
ago at this time they *rere- Mid a.
Cuban fisherman, i a Marx
ist line, came up wl~te & 'haul.
Call To Arms
This was Fidel Castro. His haul consist-
ed of 1,179 Cuban patriots. A few "fish"
got away. Others died on the beach along
' Cuba's southern coast. All were caught In
started their unsuccessful invasion of a
year ago by broadcasting coded messages
to underground. movements in Havana. The
messages, repeated and repeated; said
simply, "the fish are running, the fish are
running."
This was to alert counterrevolutionary
elements that the invasion was coming. It
also was a call to arms never answered.
The sign of the fish is the symbol of
Christianity and has its origin in the Bible.
Today, most of the 1,179 survivors of
the Bay of Pigs invasion are for sate in
Havana's high - priced prisoner market.
Castro wants 62 million dollars for his
catch. Families in exile have only an esti-
mated 28 million dollars to barter.
The dynamics of the revolution and noun-
ter-revolution has put a good many ques-
tions of a moral,; political and ideological
nature to the Western Hemisphere. The
answers will be written by subsequent his-
tory. -
This writer Interviewed hundreds.of Cu-
ban exiles and Castro sympathizers before
last year's Invasion attempt. As a Carib-
bean newsman based In San Juan, Puerto
Rico, it was easy in those days to become
involved, something a journalist should
never do, with a We and a cause.
Invasion Buildup
Most--of the Cubans I k1 ew before the
Invasion belonged to the Revolutiopary
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