DONOVAN TO THE RESCUE
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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370065-6
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1
Document Creation Date:
November 17, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 21, 1998
Sequence Number:
65
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Publication Date:
April 13, 1963
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John T. O'Rourke, ed'tor Ray F. Mack,
EA7 URIIAY. APRIL 1.1. 1963
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Ono van to the Resale
.41N 1'ei' James B. Doric.
%an is making a career of springing
prisoners caught up in Fidel Castro's
web.
On his latest expedition to ('ui>a, Mr.
Donovan came home with lone Anter?-
itan -ho accidentally i. a p p e n e d on
Castro'. inipr ironed i~l~'r.rf i?,c?ause of a
ahipwre.:. awl a missionary Castro ac-
cuseti of ~JYinn for tine Central Intel-
ligence -'.wejlcy.
Ti yea- the same I n w+an 'ahn last
triel,er ;managed the ran:..,in of 1113
of the p i isono" from the lBa' N of Pigs
fiasco of two years ago. Recently, he
got out two V (..h,en who had been hold
by t'a.tio's jailers. And it w,t, he who
negot avert the trade of the Soviet spv'
Col Ittdolph Abel, foi Inc t'-'.: pilot,
Franc . Po~vers.
It ctlil,l he that vet. Donovan trot
Started in this unique tarecr because
the Hr:1.kl%,n Eau- Association it 1957
chose hit to defend Alt'1 at his trial.
This niadt iiin: a 1;:;~ir ;11 tmi, i;ary, no
doubt, in t h L. later Powers-Arose ex
change.
But the deal for the Bay of Pigs
prisoners was anoiller tory. Altho Mr.
Donovan was lacked 11y the $53 million
in ransom goods, it took m to n t h s to
wangle Castro into releasing the pris-
oners. In the case of the nine ship-
ra.reckf'ai men jIL,t Iii erated. Mr. I)ono-
vat: a:aplarcntly had no mote going for
hit; than his t:uc.i' foe rSUasion-
Which must lie enut'IIIOus.
When the Brtxrklyr, Ear Association
appointed Mr. l)ouovan to def ad Cul.
Adel (somebody h:ul to do it) the bar
president said they had to have a law-
yer of rharacte and a b i lit y whose
loyalty was " 1,1 ?rond question." In his
operations sinct. ",;r?. lhtnovmi has made
vitod on tl,_rso 1 i!_ lie slid get
a medal fro ii 111: :1A fur the Powers
trade--hut in v if tr of his servicer more
recently the t'i "i it seems a nittanro A
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