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...Castro's air force consisted of not quite twoscore planes-a dozen or so obsolete B-26s, plus about the same number of obsolete British Sea Furies. But in addition there were seven or eight T-33 jet trainers, the remnants of an earlier U.S. transaction with the Batista government, so the force was not the pushover it appeared at first glance. Armed with rockets, these jets would be more than a match in a battle for the exiles...
...forward in the cockpit, Wilfredo Roman Oquendo, 36, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had made an abrupt transformation from the shy Miami hotel waiter who had meekly bought a ticket to Tampa. Suddenly he was the same snarling Cuban secret policeman he had been in pre-Batista days; suddenly he was fulfilling his role as a hotheaded member of Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement. He pointed a big, Luger-type pistol at Pilot William E. Buchanan. 40, and snapped: "Turn this airplane around." Unruffled, Buchanan banked the $3,500,000 ship into a wide turn calculated to alert...
...days, Fidel Castro had been promising Cubans a big surprise on the July 26th anniversary of his unsuccessful 1953 attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's regime. The great day came and went. No surprise. Said Castro, in his best who-me? manner: "The revolution does not have to await a date; revolution is a process." Apparently he had decided, perhaps on Moscow's advice, to go slower in proclaiming the next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised...
...other visitors with experiences to tell sought safety in the embassy, Mallin was able to put together the story of Castro's police-state terror during the invasion crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge...
...late April and early May, 1960, his active resistance to the Castro regime began. He was the co-founder of MRP, and, as he had been in the resistance to Batista, he was the sabotage expert. "All the MRP were members, with Fidel, in the 26th of July movement. We left him because of the Communists." In August, Manuel Ray resigned from Havana University in protest against the repression of academic freedom. Three months later he left Havana and came to Miami with his family to direct MRP sabotage work from there...