JAMES B, DONOVAN WILL SPEAK SEPT. 11 TO CATHOLIC LAWYERS; HE ARRANGED CUBANS' RELEASE, PLEADED FOR RED SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 13, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Donovan, President of the
Board of Education. of the,
City of New York. and noted
writer and lecturer, will
speak at a dinner following
the traditional Red Mass at
St. Mary's Cathedral in Og-
densburg on Saturday, Sept.
Q D enom "'Fill S ea Sept. 11'
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Cubans' Releases Pleaded For Red .Spy
To C th?0e Lawyers; He A range .
Thomas E. DuPre, Presi-
dent of the Catholic Lawyers
!,Guild, has announced that
the . Honorable James Britt
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Donovan arranged on trips to with the ? Soviet-Embassy and
Americans held prisoner by ment, arranged for the
re-
Co
astr and all other Ameri, lease of U-2 pilot Francis
cans ses king repatriation Gary Powers by Soviot Rus-
Four Cubans ,held prisoner sia, and the release of United
in the United States were re States student Frederick Pry
leased in a reciprocal act of or held by East Germany, in
clemehcy in April,,1963. ~ exchange for the United
By the nnnclaicinn of 4hn Stems release AF- Colo
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ne
i resulted in the release o R
!lover 9,700 Americans an
Cubans from Cuba to ? th
His Excellency, Bishop
Thomas A. Donnellan, will
preach the homily at the
Mass. It will be followed by
a reception at the home of
Bishop Donnellan, for all of
the attorneys and their wices.
A dinner, at which Mr. Dono-
i van will speak, will be held
,,immediately following the re-
United States.
Mr. Donovan is also wel;
known for his participation!
in the Abel Case. In August,'
>..,11057, Rudolf Abel was indict-i-
,1 rict Court, Brooklyn, for the1
JAMES B. DONOVAN !. capital crime of being the;
chief of Soviet espionage
For his service in this
case, Mr., Donovan was
awarded .the Distinguished
Intelligence Medal by the
Central Intclli~cilcc -Agen-
cy, presd Tccrby its Direc-
tor, John. A. McConc, at
the direction of::?,President
Kennedy, who ivrote a per-
sonal letter of 'congratula-
tions.
After a jury trial which' in the United States. At the The 1965 Red Mass will be l
attracted international at- }stig,gestion. of a ?conlmittee,the Third Red Mass spon-
The Red Mass is the popu. tention, Abel was convict- o appointed by the ? Brooklyn!sored by the Catholic Law-
lar name for the special cele- ed. At his Sentencing, Mr 'Bar Association,. Mr. Dono-Yens Guild of the .Diocese of
brataon of the Votive Mass of Donovan pleaded that his van was appointed caunsel;Ogdensburg. In 1963, Rev
the Holy Spirit in honor of execution would not be in for Mr. Abel ;creed Tinnclly, Dean of the'
St. Thomas Moore and St. the interests of the United This case w-is subsegiientlySchool of Law of St. John?sI
Ives, patrons of the legal pro- States since in the future reviewed ? by the UnitedjUniversity, was th, speaker'
fession, and marking the an American, engaged in ,States Court of Appeacis andiat ceremonies heled at the'
opening of the law courts in espionage, might be cap- finally by the Supreme Lake Placid Club. Bishop
the fall.. The Red Mass isl tured by Soviet Russia and Court. In affirming the con- Donnellan .presided over the,
celebrated each fall in most) at such time an exchange ;viction of Mr. Abel, the Chief 1964 Red Mass at St. Mary's
of the larger dioceses and of prisoners might be Justice of the Supreme CourtiCathedral. The featured
archdioceses in the United deemed desirable by the expressed the gratitude of speaker at the dinner at Wad.
States. U.S. Government. Abel was the entire court to Mr. Dono-'hams Hall following the Mass
James Britt Donovan isi sentenced to 30 years' inl- 'van: "In my time on thisiwas the Honorable John Mur?
best known for his services -J"'isonment. Court no man has undertaken ,tagn,Chlef Judge of the Neew
as General Counsel to the Cu-] nvasion Brigade oil Christom a more arduous, more self-
ban Families Committee ford alas Eve, 1962, in e~chan^esecrificing task. It gives they
k
the Liberation of Prisoners it
of War, which negotiated the'
release of twelve hundred ~',
Cuban prisoners, who sur-(I
vived the Bay of -Pigs inva-~;
Sion of Cuba in April, 1961.
After months of negoti-
ations in Cuba with the
Castro Government, which
continued during the so-
called "missile crisis," Mr. j
l
Donovan arranged the re-
j lease, SalA i~h~@,~ $ al, pprQi
now
for private donations of j Court great comfort to
drii medicines and gab that members of our bar as-1
h r'terdIn ti:ew h ~,l,~~~} n b t
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