BY ANY OTHER NAME RANSOM IS RANSOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200010028-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: October 12, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Ransom is ransom.
Well,, after all is said anpl done. tlfi~4&
un' tatlbn. has been ti to sonrtttiing in
ub It za t, ng o t'a + guilt coi lex
nd 'is putting American prestige and
reasure an the line to do it.
Last year, whei t> e first blackmail at-
tempt wa9? xltA tl?4t by Cuban Premier
+'idel Castro on the basis of aprisoners-for-
ractors, ,a h of rotest went up across
e
,com-
be natiot in the rescu
oittee's deznt e e bartering .uni 'as
phone call from Pr"esid t' Itwenne to
At that time we jy. p zed with' hWhite HouSe' om fter MKS,-
in al faiju ~nvasio ut
held that to eft i o R a Senor i aw
Castro.; a rt4rtionist, ;was
able. p.,r l"~+ aF
Cuba, accor to Wi!i Dose ins rc,
has been, a,bo iY In the dent's t bat4
year's efforts to free the" ban ca e
was shouted clq"tvn 4l y th blaze na-
tional publicity. ' t White se
and the Iaustiee Depart ._ t have rt'en
rather clandestine in tb it pport. of the
Cub 'n ransom 'Cho A, 1; , ? they picked a
dead-giveaway ,e the negotiations:
Atty. i ~mes B. o as an agent
for, the -the spy-swap that
freed` prof' Iks',Cary Powers. Mr.
Donovan is emocratic no 'ii wse
for the U. S.. $enate.,in:N w. York, cill 'i-
den:tally. _0 b,Z^ i
Supposedly the x ifs for the U. S.
Government to , 6 the shipment
of some $13 mil"n ,medicine and food
to Cuba, which 1g ?ph .actly our idea, of a
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blockade. A price#'"ja 'lof i million has
been put on'?tle car q?of - lrisoners and at
this point use, pf an ironclad secrecy
lid droppety the affair, nothing seep to
be very 14, 1hit at least as far a the
,ublic is know.
Unfortu pr. the . Cuban bite
strategist 9 the?ns or broke before Co ~"es
went ho 6 get i elected. The Adiiinis
tration, ears,` 1s' de'e ined to dea
with Cast it ,tdlrectiy or, i, r lrectly or cir
. cumspeetlt, ;> fdv the . f done fighter.
abandoned irl A $rl , f'99f! t~=
What was tYiat.,we ll*,? hear abou
prestige?
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