FIDEL SAYS 'CIA CHIEF' CAPTURED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600110003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 13, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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`CIA Chief' tia, however, included the de-
'CIA clarations:
Captured supplies, the band was equip-
ped with explosives, radio tran-
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sabotage the copper mines of 400 workers would have been
have smashed an attempt to sabotage had succeeded, about
curity officials said today they ? If the mine and cableway II FOIAb3b
HAVANA ~ AP ; - t'uban se- two weeks.
man they called the principr,!
The plan was for the men to
be picked up b a U. b. Navy
vessel after completion of the
mission, ' for which they had
been specially trained by the
CIA in the United States."
half ton of weapons. It called
tours landed near Matahambre.
ista. It said two groups of sabo
Crespo. once an army of b e,
under Dictator Pulgencio Bata
ital of Pinar del Rio Province.
northwest of Pinar del Rio, cap-
them CIA agents.
The men were reported to
of the targets of the saboteurs.
[I 20, using ^ rubber raft equip-
named Pedro Vera Ortiz at a
farm In a hilly region near
Crespo was said to have been
What the group ma' have
achieved between the time of
Newspaper stories said Cres-
po and his group also benetitted
from "the collaboration of a
certain embassy which lends Its
diplomatic pouch to bring in
telecommunication equipment
for saboteurs." The embassy
was not named.
There was no elaboration of
why Cuban authorities chose to
keep silent on the case through
ie days since the reported ar-
re,t of Crespo and Ortiz. ,
However, the Soviet misaDe
crisis may have been it factor.
President Kennedy announced
orders Oct. 22 for the U. S.
arms blockade of Cuba.
Though the Havana radio list-
ed the names of 12 saboteurs,
there was no mention of the cap-
ture of more than two.
The broadcast said the cap-
tured pair gave full details of
the sabotage plan to authorities,
de.:r-dhirr, hhow thev waited vain-
ly on the Pinar del Rio coast for
three days. making prearranged
signals to a rescue craft which
never came. This vessel, the ra-
dio quoted the two as saying,
was to take them to Florida.
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