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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700030004-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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SAN MATEO., ' CALIF:.
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JUL 191967
Felipe Rivero, one of Fidel Castro's is most important to be on the winning
most unrelenting enemies, has been or side. Indeed, to be so is a matter of life,
dered banished from the United States death or freedom.
by edict of the State Department. There Rivero took part in the ill-fated Bay
are hazards in the life of a political rev- of Pigs affair which was bungled by the
olutionary quite unlike' those faced by U.S. Central,, Intelligence_Agency,,, He
people even in dangerous walks of life, was taken y prisoner by Castro's forces
One day he might be a hero at whom and was among those 'later exchanged
nothing more lethal than rose petals is for medical supplies. ,
thrown. The very next day he might be Since 1959 he has been a refugee in
out in the same car he was the day be- the U.S. He has been charged as head of
fore when one of his nastier opponents a terrorist organization waging a secret
throws a grenade among the flowers. war on Castro.
phal ride along the floral way, but be an differently, Rivero would not be inGthe
outcast most of his life and eventually a dilemma he is in today. In Washington
martyr to whom a statue is erected in a today all zest for fighting Castro has
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