CIA DETENTION OF 17 CUBANS LAID TO MUTINY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700460016-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For. Release 2004/12/15: CIA-RDP75-00149R000T004 O1- 1, " V ~ -
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c + who l a d firt,t tr u t i n i r. d, `'n' the men were sent back to
their Cryan leader's tttuugl,t against San florIn and then b ed. after the anyinvasion
that they were acting like Cas- gone hack to fctualh ,failed.
tro rptes. there i~ no evidence' landed. ?ra 1 11g. a It also is denied that
to support that chatge officials' of the men were forced t gun'
here sa'' host Unavrt,.able point to take lie detector)
Alauy n; the 11 let] nerc con-, It was a;ro Pointer. out her-,""". They were given suchi
fined r- . !'ehruary after a that tno;t- ;: ( the men who tests but it is stated that. al
change in commanders at'eottld r`"t0l the activ quires a eo-~
/ isuccessful test re
Camp Trax Ili northern Guate?'flies of 04 ;.. n'l or than thedOperative subject.
Cuban invasion 'force held in e
camp, 230 asked trtto ] resign
Guatam, lan detention camp'wheo Capt. San Roman, who;
(n{? 11 :+~eeks were there be-Thad been an army officer un?I
cause they had participated in .der Fulgencio I3a.stista, was'
a mutiny, had r.fused to train,'
had threatened their o(Iicerslrl`Tced in command.
or had been ab,ent without! the story told here is that
leave, .most of the men were soon
7.ilis is the explanati )ii given persuaded to continue their
The
The Washington Post in an-;training. The few who, did not
swer to a rcccmt `;ew Yorkiwere then handcuffed and]
Times stot-y revealing the in-'taken to the detention camp.
cident. Protected 'roan Colleagues +
In that story, Ilodolf-) Nodal ! One purpose Of holding the
1'arar.a, one of the 17, said ,men, it is said, was to protect
that the men were arrested be-1them from their own col.,
cause the_,' opposed (.'ubait leagues Cuban oficers in: ?
leaders hacked by the reCentra!'contma f
nd in the camp wanted
Inteliience Agency. llateen sail] to court-martial the men butl
ed, agents of the CIA vetoed the'
the in en were threatened handcuffed, kept in subhuman plan because they felt the re
conditions, were called Coni- ..;lilt would be immediate exe-i
monists, and forced to take' cution. .
lie detector tests at gunpoint. In addition to those 1n.
Most of these points are b-?:volved in the mutiny, some)
ing disputed hcrr. Go?,?crti ncntinren were put in the deten-1
officials say the men were;tion camp because they hadi
arrested I'ecausc titry rcpne? gone AWVOL. Reports here are]
sented a threat to the sectirify'that one man was picked up'
of the invasion force and tows he was tt'tering Mexico!
the oftictcney of the opera. Arid another attt?sted after het
Lion. Visited twice 'xlth a
Facili: es Held Good girl
friend who crated into Gua-l
IC i; sairi that the detrnti ntt te'{,i,la from F:utduras. '17 themselves, are now either
camp hrd hc+'rr , Totals hrre %o,ri that the;dead or in Cuba.
faci,ities 17 men Who wric held in the] It had been expected, it is
moms `v.rtc-r and tnur+' nod .detcnuutr _-43r. 1 \,.srr the only said here, that once the in-
than lid Borne of the train- ones anon tie (';than force ,,
I
log amp and
s. The ccant u, howy of about J(tf+ +ho raid not aslon was a succesa
ever, ng
was located a the edge Q0I ree a
through w'th tl.l.ir assign -,Cuban regime men had been
of tin jtingic and wild anintaL meat A Bel: up the 1? men would have
prowrel uuL iris the fences. 1~ other combat been turned . over to it for
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