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3 ili;R,l 'S A good deal
,~iiderrnent about,yy what,I&M
to the Bay of Pigs
,risone s ;,%wan dick-
~red for. A thought occurs to
ne. Tom,
,ners in Castro's prisons.
:'ihhat about them? None has
1., c n Mentioned in the long
?avun out negotiations. The
:a(iministration gave Donovan
`s unqualified blessing before
?,e began discussions with the
33ig Barbudo.
Of course, the blessing was
kept a secret, but the fact
that c a m went about t h i s
businels #ndicated it had been
given.
This raises another ques-
tion to which . I haven't been
al)1e to get an. official
a.nstiUer. Is.lt al for an in-
,fividual, fficial stat-
us, to privately seek a large
-scale deal with a foreign pow-
er after the United States has
cut off diplomatic relations
with that country? Ari ,_i .. t
^s jc,ga1, why aren l Ame,~i-
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