21 AMERICANS FREED BY CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370056-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: March 22, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Group Flown
To Air Base
Near Miami
no
mer
ca
een released. He
said three other Americans Cuban p
One Not Released,
elected to fly to South America Wai
Three Others Go
rather than return to the United Austin
States, but he declined ?o iden-
To South America
iffy them. And he expressed ?
71o for the ear co; visae
MIAMI, Fr a., April 22 (AP). Pe
]}r release oq form an
-Twenty
uban-boyp. Aa er1osn citizens the hills
of them ~tt'cnced to Cuban 11 held.
lose Ra1
"I disc
prisons on taunter-revolution-
ussgd this R ith Castro' six days
ary chareef, Y!ere freed today by Prime 2ftlister Fidel Cas-
eon will be straightened out," "I fee
tro. They f iju to Florida in
r. Donovan said. "In addition, lean, blo
a Red C:o;i? i rtered plane. everal hundred Cuban political Not all '%! elm?rican5 known
teen na
risoners may be freed before
ti en ,,
to be helri 'r ^uba came back, tog
Mrs. Rafe(, 1),:1 Pino, wife of
Mrs. Del Pino held in het Iyr. Y
sentrna?
one of Vi l men expected to
rms a two-q~ ar-old daughter hence
return, b;uee into tears when leis, who has never seen bez1; ~?c-a
the, last etlai left the plane at ether
. &h last saw her hus+'fl mtl
lfomestiiti Air Force Base
and July 25, 1959, while shed tonic;',
south rJ as still in Cuba. lt:re.
?The eoupls 'w'ords c
"I Pee 1, lert'r from 1111-.
loo has a 12-year-old son? .oti beitiA
Donov.iit 1KYit.g my husband
fael, Jr.
pcoplr"
was cctt.CI to be on the list,"
sh?~ sobbed.
M+. D{ 7Pino, a Cuban na
,pioment the plane
Live bl,(: atutall l .Unite(S ~ded. R eba+d Allen Pecoraro
, a
States
?
I I
a
I S
I
.
i
n w
tates
s5flotflown,
sland N X tae
,,., whll' .t.titltpting td ,' e d ?a: Cen ff and rushed by ern-
tt~' r r l+t zn 1 ar gHabiana in hce, to:a, hospital. Most or
9 {t ;, y, y gpgern , eat ppeared to be In coo
tr:: .( Cl ts':,t f! th it t1E alt ~ - tst lttOn. hoa'tver ..
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James B. Donovan, New York ""very hspp ?" Jbelief that
Attorney who negotiated witt;' he would :be, leased from a
'Premier Castro for release of the, 3'!-year prison 't rm.
Americans, returned with them But the- Sad e's not coming
completing what he said would To%v, the father said, sadly.
be his-last mercy mission to the Et.166 l)fghinatti, ? Red Cross
,
Communist-dominated Island. rrpresentiilive went to!
"What happened? What hap-i Cuba and returned on today's
pened?" Mrs. Del Pino cried. flight, said;;l~e did not know
Mr. Donovan said Mr. Del the reason - why, 'six of the 271
Pino had
t b
A
i
na 'known to ` be In!
risonsdid not return.!
t
ing . for 'Long Time
F Youna, 'r., former
s
oiale attempting cojonet:
d of attempting to i
anti Castro Army in!
of I'tnar Del Rio Prov-
4
Am uu?Daen m prison
, short: a flour years,
l very Rood," said the
nd adventurer. "I have'
'
itit d' "for this a long,i
!
oung said he first was,
d to death but the l
was redltt ear` to so,
n Joe, G r e of Gas-
N C de lared~ -that'
an't expr _my feelings
bsck. a ong'Itlendly