RIVERO LEARNS THE PRICE OF DEFEAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700030006-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Learns The
rice eat
. Felipe. Rivero, one of Fidel Castro's most
unrelenting enemies, has been ordered banished
11 0111 the united States by edict of the State
Department. There are hazards in the life of
a political revolutionary quite unlike those faced
by people even in dangerous walks of life.
One day he? might' be a hero at whom
nothing more lethal than rose petals is thrown.
The very next day he'might be out in. the same
car he was the day before when one of hi..
lia-LuL vyiluneius inrows a grenade among the
flowers.
Or he may never reach the triumphal ride
along the floral way, but be an outcast most
of his life and eventually a-martyr to whom a
statue is erected in a city square. It is all a
big gamble and it is most important to be on
the winning side. Indeed, to be so is a matter
of life, death or freedom.
Rivero took part in the ill-fated Bay of
Pigs affair which was bungled'by the U.S. Cen-1
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by Castro's forces and was among those later
e
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u anged for medical supplies.
Since 1959 he has been a refugee in the
U.S. He has been charged as head of a ter-
rorist organization waging a secret war on
Castro.
If the Bay of Pigs affair had come off
differcnfly Pivnrn ,,,.,,,ia ,__
"?kidy. 111 wasnington today all zest for
f~chting Castro has vanished.
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