AIR FORCE TECHNICIANS TO ATTEND RADAR SCHOOL IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA/ "HAVANA AIR FORCE BASE" RUMORED BEING REDIED TO WORK ON SECRET AIRCRAFT/MILITIA AT SAN JULIAN ARMED WITH FEW CZECH CARBINES/ CHINESE TECHNICIANS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06841338
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2020
• Case Number: F-2020-00655
• Publication Date: October 31, 1960

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affecting the Notional Deferise Of the United States within the mooning of tho E6pionago Lowe.
transmissions/. revelation of which in any manner to on unauthorized porton ispr?hibitscl by law. -�
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...,:;.!;.��";:;,'",../ Source is a 23 year old ex-Marine who prent the period from February 2.959- -�c:,-.;:;,-;',....:::.�;:
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obtained his 'diacharge- from the Cuban Air Force in June 1960 and returned... .:1....; a., �4�:*:' f� 4;
! trii /.....2f.'� � 7;,;;�41Z; 3.. to the 13 vie.'16xico..City on 30 Aug E�o. According to source., he had been ... J-4..
.i .0116..fi'f'�'ila.=-�'r: "nominated- by the Marine Corps to enroll in the Naval Reserve '... Officer Trming:: i,�,-*.i";�: r;
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nr- 1 -1,!"`���'- .'�� Corps ak. a US�unive.rsity, .'..even thouf.th lie had not finished Ills high school .. �.,-,..-ft- ..;
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; � .1;�...:,.=2,..:, .:!�:.V. educacion. rle reportedly did not 'accept this offer bece.uSe.'-he vas raueh_morec
:�;':','..�-�r:.-.:��/?1 interested in Special 'Forces type activity, and this leg tx. ���
his decision:to:�''-'.. ':.�77.�� -�'���
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-: ���,`� ' ! � : '''; ' � leave the Marine Corps and a short time later to enlist ',i n the Cuban .A.7-.y.
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1 ,,,;(�,...,:..., ,Shortly. before Iv departure from Cuba in mid-August 1960 (I,Irad been dischaltad ..I.-7:,:;erom the, Cuban Mr Force in mid-June-191a) but bad remained in Havana for two_ , a �;� ,
*.i.:.4.,.:-.-:,;,-...- ...r?, '.; months). I�talked.to-..11rank Riga]. (1,12. Air Force technician. :He 'told r.te�that '21e � :'," �
f,,,...1.5:1�.:(f.,,,,,?.,�1:!�,.. ��was.td-leave with about 30 other Cuban Air Force technidio.ns in late
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4- i''..."'� r�-���� ����I'',60 to attend a� radar school in Czechoslovakia. He also stated that a �... '
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""..t ' Ithi.oba:151y via Spain;'..' Rica]. nOted that he had heard that Cuban 0-2 persemlel..e,',-
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Vere holding u�P'tO proars because they did not know all of the details �:11
,��,.:.:-,..-,..t .... olvcd. Consider' ing my !own expe.riences with the confusion rampant iii the A.- ..7--,-.i .,..,...� .i.-
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;11,..:1 '';'.':�:!rf It appears to ii.o to be quite possible that 0-2 a3 attempting to stal1 this:s.,�,-
i���..; ".::'-'�'iSrogram until they Could rind out more of the details. � I believe that the ti,':�'� ''';:-
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c..1,3'..'t's��:73:, �I''.�to Czich.3slovakla for training.: _Some of the. other Air force pilots doubted::�'1'.
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vrere transported to 'Cuba on a Soviet tc.nker rnot further identified] 'which �:.._ -��'.�,-:"..�;���
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auppasedly an expert in rice cultivation. _Be spoke poor Spanish, p.nd t- �.. 1.� �
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