CUBAN PRISONERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001800010025-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 25
• Content Type: MF

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Approved For Release 2002/O~R1
001800010025-7
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OGC 62-2597
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Cuban Prisoners
1,Harry Williams of the Cuban Families Committee called
me as Mr. Donovan's assistant to say that he had received a
telephone call from Alvaro Sanchez from Havana. Sanchez is the
President of the Cuban Families Committee who has been in
Havana since the end of August in connection with the Donovan
negotiations for the release of the Cuban prisoners.
2. According to Williams, Sanchez said that Sanchez and
Mrs. Barreto, a resident of Havana and a member of the Cuban
Families Committee, during the last several days have been
especially well treated. They have been told by high officials
of the Cuban Government (otherwise unidentified) that Castro
considers the negotiations still open. Sanchez and Mrs. Barreto
were to see various ofi
S ids in the Cuban Government, possibly
including Castro, toay'o discuss the negotiations. Williams
also reported that after two months of requesting Castro to allow
Sanchez to see the prisoners, pe ?niss on sud en as granted
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and he was to see the prisoners todayoGr` tomor4
row.
3. Williams had an appointment to see the Attorney
General today and will give me the substance of his conversation
later this afternoon.
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Assistant General ounce
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