CIA DIDN'T HELP RAIDS ON CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300080001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By HENRY CAVENDISH
CPYkGHT Reporter of The Siam Ne%vx
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fortune, today denied any knowledge of CIA sponsorship of raids
against 'Cuba at the time of the October 1062 missile crisis.
Edward Germaine, a government witness in the federal suit
the headquarters of a group of anti-Castro Arr,6rican soldiers-of
to condemn weapons, explosives and ammunition seized by_ cus-
0 Weapon-laden boats manned by Americans and Latins
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prior to the missile crisis.
0 The adventurers, led by Gerald. P. Hemming had used
departed from, and returned to, his dock on several occasions
his property for storage of weapons and refueling of boats.
0 There was a Voice of America transmitter on the site,
and his house and dock were floodlighted to aid incoming boats.,"
0 He had not been hired by the CIA, and to his knowledge
neither had the small band of soldiers-of-fortune.
Hemming's group had claimed ownership of the military 1
equipment seized at the site. The government seeks condemns
tion, on grounds that. the Neutrality Act was violated.
The weapons were found aboard the twin-engined cabin
cruiser Sally, which Germaine testified was regularly moored
and refueled at his dock.
In the second trial day before Federal Judge David W. Dyer':
and a 12-member jury, the claimants' attorney, Richard Booth,
said evidence would be introduced to show that the CIA actually
had sponsored boat raids by );lemming's group.
At the time of their arrest, Hemming, 26, of 2450 NW N.
River Dr., claimed that his group was independent, and uncon-
nected with either the American government or any Cuban exile'.
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