DONOVAN SURE CASTRO'LL FREE CAPTIVES SOON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100390075-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: November 21, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK NOV 1962
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Donovan Sure
Castro'Oftce
Captiyesoon
medicine, food'". ugs, tutbe c ied o11t~ Wt 1Q -,day;
oneexicial sppro ~a . s grant
who has been trying to gain t
release of 1,1131 priners ea -
tured ~y Cuban. P~?eWier Fid I
Castro's forces;1p the abgrti
Bay of Pigs invasibPt, said ,ye!ste
day he was still, optilttistje. th?
tl}ey will be set' free st{on.
Donovan said final approval
the swap of prsoor awe
Havana jail and 16 of ,the othe
213 held of lie Isle of Pines
He said their morale was high
but added': ,'Whatever the Free
World is going? to do to free
these poor boys has to be doe
in a hurry"
In Weak Conditn
He said the men on, the Isle
of Pines were in very poor physi-
cal condition and that a9m ?had
received ipjeetions to revdve them
after they fainted.
fro said the Havana prisoners
were in better shape. ~,
Sanchez said his meetings with
the prisoners were f rl at
first, under the eyes o guards,
but that when be waa leaving:
marry of the men embr ed him
and handed him notes r their
elatives in the U.S,-
.11
eluding his son, hduar , 19.
Sanchez had'aarpng t6.mee
with 16 of 900 prisoners in
With Donovan ate, to confer
ence was committee , chairma
Alvar San hez ,Jr, w ret n
Mond y from a visit Cube ei
which he saw 32 pri ners, in
tended tom
.:_
It was indicated tha$.he Cuban
Families Cot trrlittee, f whit
Donovan is general crnsel, in
"And then `I would eave H
vana with all of the prisoners,
He'd Bring Theme Back
okay , he would "go to avan
with very. substanti percent
age o the . total sj.ppnents an
with certain assuranc * with re
sg,gct to completion of the trans
The" unsuccessful emocrnti
candi te for the : Senat
said his office, I ' Williai
St., at once thg, egl wa
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