EX-PRISONERS GIVE PRESIDENT INVASION FLAG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100380051-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: December 29, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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"I always had, he impres- the tempera the t bright sun was car (rd l ~abling one to Anticipate by four
lion that the brigade was made ture up ton
predicted hitch of 84. >r fiv#'days the'prectae time
up mostly of young men," he Brown-uniformed Miami pr ,`)f-ovulation would be of lnegti
remarked. He described the?licemen, st.And4ng just an arrri' ?.nable value to those indivi 1
older fighters as representing length apart, lined the era:,s .';9ua1e" who wish to use the.,
"l.tie spirit of the Cuban revo-,covered field from end to ell rhythm method.
lution in its best sense." [acing. the crowded south eta
Recalls Spanish Rule In a line about five feet Dearth.f Ideas
Their head,, kept turning f Dr. Kennedy commented that
Recalling that most of the; side to side As they w',t gthe -difficulty here is that
brigade had just come fromi keenly for any sings of Ca there are no good ideas on how
b,?hind prison walls, the Presi-,ymputhizers who might try'1to do;ft. The sums that have,
dent said they had left behind: sabotage the ceremony. `been Bested for a crash pro
in Cuba more than 6 million During last night, unifot'ite couldn't possibly be spent
persons "who are also in a very officers accompanied b y - ' 1nteiltgeritly because of the'
real sense in a prison.". -dogs patrolea.'tt3e stagl. * "
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He charged that, as Cuba Miami Public! Safety fldeaTtii of ~eoue eld t ap
once was tinder Spanish rule D. D. Pomerleau sold the Sail t 4t . Iie'hetd out hope
oweaer. that progress in.,
before the Spatiisli- American Service, charged. with prOLcG f?
plother tlertit'~tx ret~Carch is likely
War, the island again is "ccln- than of the President, was ltlsn' time t Drovide clues" for
trolled by a fors"ign monarch." complete command Qf the po fi+m
He described the freedom lice operation. po the effective- ;?r
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fi^hters' brigade as "the point "We're Just 'tvoi`king for them
Mrs. Kennedy Speaks of the spear. the arrow's head" during this operation," he said, 1fi described as safei
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Mrs. Kennedy thrilled th and urged its members and As the time, Reared for the hlf.effectivC t
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freedom fighters lined up o other Cuban exiles to sub- President's appearance, crow ditlo?ti methods contra-
the field find their irlattve me ree any momentary differ- began filling some of t tattoo, but''` it raised some
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stands by addressing them I the uniu.d etld that Cuba is ens or l,ne sl.auiuw, - _ q. It
their native 8pantsh. She col I free." Several tiers of at~l t eoi~trol'bins now on
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