PRISONER-SWAP IDEA CREDITED TO DONOVAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370050-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

1961
Approved For Release 2000108124 :` CIA-RDP75=i
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Priso:ter-Szvap Idea'
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and not 1itei ;.'...rro who itg
gs tt?C tlaa' f' 1'4!3C'E t+l 'Cf ?c
lI ok) M inna clcl l6k an, "to
th.:,.. Cuban "kl teurs he , f*r
leased in return for th h e(
Ing at, the rer,;ainin^ \ttwt i,
earns in "ban Jails.
had
[~s .hriwiously that J're'R1u'r
ltvitltro had expregsed a.n mter-
inthe four men treir*l .reId
in Neew York State an(' .ia,xt
d 1 I
l
t
l
was r?poru'd .,
Ida:' by a rc'iiah,e rntarce
ftIc l epstt.tt nl Nource.,;
t
awrtP a ttsu
L
rt : Ing about Molina`s plight than
kccot?dtir.*1 to the u+*rc!on r+trisbo,it that oP the sabeteurs.
14, haf-rvued,
Donovan. the
sawyer who fit
the reiea last
Unto }'f' CF_'ttaa,1, this is what
'-this n sty would. oft
cuurs:e*. ,be L dtticirtal on
t.xaattrr'%- '[ri-anttng aune~stti'
the Anwricans ('aatro was'
uttere ed, particularly in thei
freeing of Manna Molina a
wining a 20?year?+crlfe n-
leave as the slay"r of a 9-yea
old Ceneiuelan girl In a New
: York barroom potitieMM braw
dustng Vitro's vNt to the
United Nations in 1
In ? Ct ba. D n n o v a n cue-
-covered, there WAS -more feel-
=lie wasrcgtrtied as a political
prisoner, and Castro was
New York eaget? to have him released.
'negotiated Donovan proposed the: ex?.
change to Castro, who was
Dev n bezf nf'interestact, On tits return to
stored at the Wat Ingtori, lt.n an sounded
ES L" Of Pi:q, was back in Ila. O"t tttrru('v tie feral Irohert
is artit ;+g s fit t t& Jaarusi z . In 1'. l fir}nkcly. w l ~, a '.' '~ d to t.. ?t ss,In ; Willi Castro rite ego along 'ti iti# :iatt
.. Pt -rtrt,lit Y of c'ttin some 20-.
odd Americans out of Cuban,,.
I 1)1 P c, i_, 'Donavan sug estett'
Old anmt>st.v +itnght be Oh.,
,t:dtll t for #lotlna and the ~
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