KENNEDY,S HEROES; A LOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700180007-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

January ;4. 1953
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MIAM! ACCOLADEFOR FORMER BATISTA HATCH
ran !~
erg heroes:
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AT THE OR , ANGE BOWL in Mtaml
Dec. 2L P $1ent,`Kennedy and 143
wife Jo Ma elifvye, +gf,'!$e to the released
itnaders of CU a. ached at the Bay of
Pigs 'Plays Otrf- Aped 'T7.1981. From
Jost Alfredo Pk i San Roman, cotn-
mander of Invading Brigade 25041. the
President recelT ed the fag of that unl:.
allegedly atnuesled out of Cuba after the
defeat, and Iterredy promised that the
flag would be returned to the tntaders
"in a free Havana."
The President. in his oath of office,
had pledged himself to uphold the laws
of the United States. which include all
foreign treaties. But in this Miami cere-
rnony, he honored as heroes the motley
croup which. at his behest. had vio&rted
U S. neutrality laws as well as ^-ban
wvereignty.
Who are the--e men K-nn dy c.ii..d
"t.he bravest In the world?" The stories
and backgrounds of their leaders can be
pseced together from statements they
themselves made in Cuba after their
capture, from textiniony at trials. from
Interviews on TV and from letters.
FOIL EJGSM2 ; Take San Roman. the
commander ,"ho handed his brlaade's
banner to Kenneds. For ten years be was
an officer in the satihta army. After the
revolution he pot a Job with INR.A. the
The foUoaaiwp is as ezrtrpt f ream an
editorial in the .Jan. I Son Fra*cLa o
Chronicle as it a{ red Is I F. S!nne',q
it was first necessary to !Hate ti
wires. sisters and areetJiearts i#
hundreds of otbm Cabana t:tto
upnn my abouldera ...
that no human force can e
out.-
the Afianu Orange !'tom:. Sail Roizsrs }':"
knighted. and ready for a n
crusade of ?idlots."
Ek-em. civil affairs e -theef !:,,
vaswn forces, was orte of the aVyltt t',
for the released pri ners. A fro =`s,iii`be
fore the 7dtami Bowl -euruora. h, ttAd
:meting of 4.O( Cubar: ez? e< "Tr-42.1 Y
wx-=nt no tears We call .' er%bod? .al
krttme had apol.era v4,'~ :?r w
pi -m conference Ln Ha:sr .: `,.S,o}, . aft
after his capU-Tr at l' ovoi CCt.' .. .
spoke bitterly about
rn+nt. whose official, "had iv oaai
trained. subsidized and dirfate : V
vask?n. -What was dote with tl ? r*%4
waz a real crime." he :faid. ." t wl Js
played with the lives of 1,4M eTet3
I am ready to tell the amid befoft
l)H all about the U.3. partici,pathh?rt Sti lr
invasion."
Artime has told how. In Cuba alter !
rr tttion, be was aecw. ed of aU tell
funds tntended for peasants, MA
helped by a U a secret *cent to
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