DORTICOS CHALLENGES U.S. PRESS AS CUBA PARADES 2 ' CIA AGENTS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200360013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 10, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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O2QO36042.6sanas was
answering questions, Dorticos
suddenly burst into the confer-
ence hall to announce that he
felt compelled to intervene be-
cause he had been "disturbed by
the doubts implied in the
questions of the U.S. journal-
ists."
Pointing to the expensive,
sophisticated radio equipment
that the captives were alleged
'to have in their possession,
Dorticos asked: "What more
proof do you want? Do you
think this is equipment that
Cuban exiles can buy in a
store? This equipment . . . is
specially made by the CIA for
its special purposes."
Then, he turned to the audi-
ence and said, "I would ask
each of the American journal-
ists here to stand up and give
your opinion as to whether
what you have heard and seen
is true."
Press Survey
According to Cuban offi-
cials, 26 U.S. newsmen have
'been allowed In to report on
the LASO meeting. Most rep-
resent small, specialized publi-
cations of an avowedly leftist
nature.
Several journalists In this
category-representing such
organizations as the National
Guardian, the Worker, the Mil-
itant and the Monthly Review,
-rose to say that they believe!
the evidence of CIA infiltra
tion was authentic and con
HAVANA PRISONER-A man Identified news conference Wednesday in Havana vincing.
_ ..... .. ...we, a he claimed lie was an agent in the, This apparently did not satis-'
exile, was helped to a microphone at a empioy of she %,vzLtra, ,".~,s~.... ?- -? ] demand: "I want to hear from
sociatea vressr wnati apuuv
Dorticos' ChalIinges U.S. mess Life and Look magazines?"
The correspondents -of _these
/ organizations then spoke.,
By John Goshko I
newsmen here. ou s ou ~ t e emp oy o e
ban exiles in
t the .
b
,
judges, that they did not have
washinston Post Foreisn service
a,
president Johnson, abou
CIA. They had entered Cu
t
sufficient technical expertise
Aug. 9-The
HAVANA
o the pair said, to cache radio
evidence and what he has
to give an opinion about the
,
uban government today
say about it." transmitters for use by other
, origin of the radio equipment
taged a new parade of cap-
subversion agents"
S
d "U
Capture Sunday Claimed CIA operatives.
i A government spokesman
h
and that they did not want to
prejudice the position of the
.
.
ure
nd provoked an unexpected
The exchange came as t
en said they were part of 'a four
ment was displaying
other two
h
prisoners.
ide attraction-an exchange
President Osvaldo
ose
govern
man group w
reporters and delegates to the members escaped to sea. Gar-
This appeared to mollify
('Dorticos. His face creased by a
etwe m
rtico and American orepor, f the
`their coverage of the
ers over
Latin American Solidarity Or- cia Diaz appeared with- his
conference two arm in a sling. He was des-
r
ap-
;broad grin, the Cuban Presi-
Tnt said "I understand
per-;
1
,
Cgban charges against the
s
prisone
prisoners that it said were c
cribed as having been
tared Sunday in Pinar del Rio, wounded in the capture, and
,
~? 'cetly your sensibilities and.
CIA.
"How can any honest man
the slightest doubt that
h
Province. he was excused from question
ing because of his weak condi-
The twoo,en
l l R
your unwillingness to make,
on the spot. That's:
-
'
ave
this ?is a CIA infiltration. of
chah
ti
.
Dan
bal Gard DsJand
Garcia Casanas, confessed be- RC7HT ,., erformarice
t
fi,
Nhy I think you should ask
.Presideht Johnson what he
coe ,
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f D
or
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the script ,.
__ i ether with the feverish a
F. other captives appeared befor , la use they evoked from dele
the LASO delegates to confth ates, were interpreted as a
their roles as agents of th ign that the Cubans think
CIA Cuban-exile cognter Rre propaganda
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r
ba Parades 2 'CIA ~ A geiUs' None, however, replied di?
1 ;rectly to his original question,
.__.._f. x. !saying instead that they were
long" the handful of J.S. el that the were' Cu-
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