REPORT FROM LATIN AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380039-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 30, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/06/13 : CIA
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Report from
L4-t,i America,
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CTTRIBkJI4'S LATIN AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT
(CopyrigiP 19a2 by the Chicago Tribune)
1HIY11, i)r'~..,. G21-C%LI r hU inunt S in uie cumnium ti Ju l15
of Premier Fidel Castro, and despite the disillusionment
I- M over the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the esprit de
corps of the hbei`atd prisoners who were brought here in time
for Christmas by ti lir shuttle to freedom from Cuba early
hey have been liberated, they must pre-
are. to return to free their homeland
rem the control of 'communism.
Perhaps some emotional complaints
ight be voiced in the future, as they
ave in the past, but there was nothing
ut gratitude for the,;Tinited States for
aving helped to liberate, them.
Manuel Artime, 31,.who was! held in
olitary confinement for eight months
n the Isle of Pines penitentiary - with
$500,000 price tag On his head and.
we Inv
"We. PO it. to the mothers of the 300, men who died in t
liberation-Attempt on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs to mai
taro the unity of brigade 2506 and. prepare to. fight to resc
cheering throng of 4,000 Cuban exiles in the Dinner K
Viir Aaist ?Re'f,"ubans ;lV of Over
A RTIME and the two top military commanders of the in
lion, Colonels Jose Perez San 4 man and- Aneido Ali
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prisoners; expressiid the sa sen en s. Their war agai
communism, and that of the freedom fighters who were
crated, is not over by any ;means. Hundrer ?_q, ttc return
prisoners preferred to, S _MOka a
The liberated prisoners will have the ptlominant v
in forging the much-needed unity among Cuban exile gro
They have returned with enthusiastic optimism buoyed by
ported by bus to the miliry air base outside of Havana
1 he freedom shuttle.
"Come back soon, -buf to win!" citizens defiant oL
communist tyranny shouted at them. "We want you back'
need you!,, D.on't fail us!"
One busload of, prisoners was hailed by a girl who
hanging on the arm of a uniformed militia man with his b
gun: "I want you to know that I am a worm," she sho
at them a&ah ~ r>~~pF'e ~eS 2 09i/
issue .Early Appeal for Unity
0 LD REVOLUTIONARIES HAVE also issued an early appeal
for unity. A leader among them is Dr. Sergio Carbo, who
had backed Castro in his newspaper Prensa Libre of Havana,
only to have its 4 million dollar plant confiscated because the
e paper. was anti-communist.
s "Never shatter the unbreakable and exemplary unity of
t
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from New
he urged in a welcoming telegrart
brigad 2506
e, York, where he has been ill and was unable to be here to greet
his returning prisoner son, Ulises. "In defense of a sovereign
i Cuba under the rule of our constitution, we will rescue with
arms all the other prisoners in the name of our glorious past."
s l Caro led an expeditionary force from the United States
p' 30 years ago to try `to' overthrow Dictator Gerardo Machado.
hav,
me here for one purpose: To return home.