Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310026-6
Body:
Approved For Release / ,-RDP75=
MAR 2 1965
fessions over radio and TV here , ~L u nd
Qxplosives as TNT RDX and:?
of how they were recruited and - Tetril.
trained. The agents,-Elpidio Del- They were then shipped to
ion, were captured in the - La there are two bases,- one near
,Salinas zone of Pinar del Rin O.. t r...,-___ -_1 .. ..
tt~ r-unto ae Mono, preparing
They related that they were 'about 120 men for
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recruited in Miami. A plane took - infiltration against Cuban comMA, them via Washington to Norfolk, " merce.
Va. There they boarded a ship A large ship, the Santa Lucia,;
called "Joan," flying a, Liberian . took them, they said, to within
it flag and painted black, for San. three miles' of Cuba; when they;
Jose, Costa Rica, where they transferred to a rubber boat with
were put up three blocks from silent motor that brought them
~. , Costa Rica Government House. Into Pinar del Rio. Before, they
"They. said that in Costa Rica:could make the contact that had,:
.100...men were being trained In ,; . been arranged, they were. seized
use:- of, the AR-18, 'a flew U.S., by the Cuban militia. ' .
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Approved For Release 2007/01/16: CIA-RDP75-00149R000700310026-6