CIA DIDN'T HELP RAIDS ON CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300590007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 2 5 1964
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By HENRY CAVENDISH
Reporter of The Miami :%m g
hfItAndlull Manor, ose Sombrero Beach property was
the headquarters of a group of anti-Castro American soldiers-of.
fortune, today denied any knowledge of CIA sponsorship of raids
i against Cpba at the time of the October 1962 missile crisis.
kdward Germaine, a government witness in the federal
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. to condemn weapons, explosives and ammunition seized b
y? cus-
toms agents at the site on Dec. 4, 1962, tesitifed in Miami Fed.
Weapon-laden boats manned by Americans and L ti
'departed from, and returned to, his dock on several occas' ns
i
ons.
'prior to the missile crisis.
0 The adventurers, led by Gerald. P. Hemming, had used
his property for storage of weapons and refueling of boats.
? There was a Voice of America transmitter on the s't
` and his house and dock were floodlighted to aid incoming boats.,"
He had not been hired by the CIA, and to his knowled
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neither had the small band of soldiers-of-fortune.
Hemming's group had claimed ownership of the militar 1
equipment seized at the site. The government seeks condemna-
fine .... ..........a_ ~L_, .,. .. ... .
The weapons were found aboard the twin-engined
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cruiser Sally, which Germaine testified was ' regularly moored
and rpfnclarl ~r t,;c a,.,.v
In the second trial day before Federal Judge' David W D e
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and - a 12-member jury, the claimants' attorney, Richard Booth
said evidence would be introduced to show that the CIA actually
At. the time of their 'arrest, Hemming
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R.ivpr Dr., claimed that his group was independent, and uncon-
nected with either the American government or any Cuban exile.
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