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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370066-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: January 11, 1963
• Content Type: TRANS

Approved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP75-00001 R000i0O '
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CPYRGHT FIRST LEAD CARDINAL
: :
BOSTON WHO DISCLOSED YESTERDAY HE RAISED $1 MILLION TO HELP
LIBERATE CUBAN INVASION PRISONERS, SAID TODAY HE IS WILLING TO
GO TO CUBA TO INTERCEDE FOR AMERICAN PRISONERS STILL HELD THERE.
THE CATHOLIC PRELATE TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE HE IS WILLING TO
GO PERSONALLY TO INTERCEDE FOR THE AMERICAN PRISONERS IF HE IS IN
VITED BY FIDEL CASTRO.
HE SAID, TOO, HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO INTERCEDE BY MEMBERS OF
THE PRISONERS' FAMILIES. HE SAID THEIR APPEALS FOLLOWED "IN THE
LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT I COLLECTED THE MONEY FOR THE RELEASE OF
THE CUBAN PRISONERS."
THE CARDINAL SAID HE PRESUMED CASTRO WILL, LEARN OF "MY INTE
IN THE AMERICAN PRISONERS. I WOULD NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT HIM I
MATTER. I WILL GO TO CUBA IF HE INVITES ME."
ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MILLION DOLLARS HE SAID HE HAD $200,00
ON HAND WHEN ATTY. GEN. ROBERT KENNEDY TELEPHONED HIM FOR HELP.
"I WAS SAVING THE MONEY UNTIL I WAS SURE IT WOULD BE USED FO
THE PURPOSE INTENDED." HE SAID THE ADDITIONAL $800,000 WAS RAISE
THROUGH SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS.
THE CARDINAL SAID HE WOULD NOT GIVE THE NAMES OF ANY CONTRIB
UTORS BECAUSE HE KEPT NO RECORDS. HE ADDED THERE WERE NO GREAT
SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND THAT NONE OF THE MONEY CAME FROM AN
FOUNDATION."
HE SAID HE CONTACTED WEALTHY PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA AND MAN
MANY CONTRIBUTED.
THE CARDINAL SAID MANY BOSTON PRIESTS CONTRIBUTED AND HE NOT
THAT THERE WERE THREE CATHOLIC PRIESTS AMONG THE PRISONERS.
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HE SAID HE IS WILLING TO DO ALL HE CAN BUT THAT HE LACKS CON
IN THE ORIENT.
COMMENTING ON THE ILL-FATED INVASION OF CUBA THE CARDINAL SA
HE BELIEVED IF THE UNITED STATES HAD JOINED DIRECTLY IN THE INVAS
IT COULD HAVE LOST THE FRIENDSHIP OF TWO OF THE BIGGEST NATIONS I
SOUTH AMERICA, BRAZIL AND VENEZUELA.
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THE CARDINAL 2ND GRAF PVS A25
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