WHY IS U.S. HARASSING 'INVADERS'?
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November 11, 2016
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December 14, 1998
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32
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Publication Date:
November 11, 1963
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Sanitized -Approved For Release : CIA-RD
FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT
Edith K. Roosevelt
Why is U.S.
Harassing
? , rs'.
ere--Con
seated at, t' !air?irt a World War II
Mane to two Americans
1110 fly raids over Cuba.
The plan,,, ail unarmed Flearcat
8F, helori?s to pilot VF iiliam John-
-oil of Fort L:rur?s r ?.xis, Fla., and
New York e p o r t e r Alex
Rorke J I.
''
I?on't ,, .. ?.IJlosophy tc. nip.
customs to red W ail( i' Shanley was
quoted as : tt int, trio the pair pro
tested that tzhanley did not have a
court order. for the federal govern
meat's s~ i~ur+ of their plane o;t
Oct. 2o.
C 11's ; u iii Ot.!Ii:Urit les -`3 id thi'
were Set/ill Tto' plane on suspicion
of illegal eypnrt. Rorke and Johnson
arc' now trying to recover their
plane through the, courts. They list
thin illegal rind arbitrary seizure"
harassments they
Il;rva still'' tl,e a fministr;r-
lion nlerni;s r' of Idle U.S. Free.
n i j , ' ;7 ,?rS. cIuuP (Ii'dIi'.tIL'II to lxnce raid.
'T'here may ho a reason why tha
l'reeiionl 1''igiitri:= 8re a special Ir.
t itall t tc - : in 1>envrr - Cllr l::an ?
rlatlg11 01i' is a!n t l?fetfessi' ;a of ol'I
nt>-tViii 2>Vi rn!rle;lt. Ii.
c'h.rrie: al~l.,~, ' !I~' 1'r^~. dgil; i~it ht? y
who :.err eI t-
ill 01111,hed irl ., .n: lil'r-'o 15 il'Ll.
the ,. f d v1i a1111I~trallnil fill It
utile?. ..tan 'i :rli ;i ,r. slit ing t h it
aborted C.';:br.,~ -tsien a t i e nt p t
last ':prim;. 11 1r story, tt'Itich in-
~Ilgtilll;i t.~ +'1 eeltoni l'iahtrvs are I
family owned CMQ, the bi
!ire daring - uerrilla eommand
~?. hr,, fought Iiatist and then Cas
. taping from a Castro jail t
;Irt;c the fight, for Cuban free
tin April It. ]!k;2, the CIA pu
hese men out to sea from Key West
'la.. in an S-knot Liberty ship, th
hanta Ana. The Cubans were tol
nen at the mouth of the A4ocamb
;tver in southern Oriente province
few miles cast of Guantanamo
iut two days earlier Herrera an
ix of his men were incapacitate
turn injuries recctt?cri when som
limn naval baso where they wer
';n 11
Y, this incident must have beet
ct .lwn to the high State Departmen
1iticials and others involved in plan
1-ig the Cubsut operation.
terground fighters ashore to genie
hem and guide there to safety. For-
imately, their advance patrol boat
tl'uck a reef which had .tot. been
parted on the map furnished them
cy CIA. The delay enabled them to
iscover before landing that some
U(Ii Castro troops were "by
cncc" waiting, for them on the
(''I 11.
')rdc?rs from the'?t'iiite iiou,e halt-
, action by ;i,"~(ft r omhai-reads' Ma-
Ines stationed at Vieques, 1:i,0(Xl
larine and Army troops who were
'and on tlti northenn coast of the
the Ma rill'- forces at
Istltatlatrie) \tho n''l'e I!o hike Sill-
go, the '-crord !ar^,st ('li :11
I as I is s to different
groups, is as
iiefore the Cuban invasion t h e
central Intelligence Agency rounded
up an elite of 13; Young American-
educatod Cubans whose background
and eriucr'.li