CUBAN EXILES DENY CIA HATCHED PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700650007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Cuban Exiles
Watched Plot
Thues-Min!ni Herald Service
WASHINGTON - A - Cuban !
exile organization, which lost six
men in a doomed raid on Cuba
the raiders were sent by the , ;,;. 5?,
CIA to assassidate Fidel Castro.
~. belonging : to ' Cubans; ' ' 'said
spokesmen' for' Comman((lqs,L.
" Everything was bough` with
money freely, jiven by Cubans'
in exile,"
Cuba captured two of the
raiders, Antonio Cuesta.and Eu-
The government
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called Cuesta "a .,CIA agent"
and said he had made a full
11 T*o other raiders, Herminio
Diaz and Roberto Anta,' were
Havana. Two others, Armando
Romero and Guillermo Alvarez, .
I werd.killed at sea when Cuban
Iilaunch.
Cuba ch irged that the raidersI
left from Marathon in the Flori-
da Keys. Commandos L denied
this,' saying they left from a
base outside the U.S. They de-
dined to identify the base.,
IN IiAVANA, the Cuban gov
6rnment said security troops
lt-e nontiirpfd "an agent of the I
ity (CIA)" In neighboring Pinar
!Del Rio province. Ile was identl?
Velez Ca?
e Ramon'
J
l
,
.
os
ed as
f
;l rera, . and was . said to have,
been a. membet of s sabotagb
earn infiltrated from Miami.
Approved-For Release 2006/11/11: CIA-RDP7.