Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind Donovan in the prisoner swap was, as usual, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Bobby felt deeply about the capture of the three CIA men -and he thought that Castro did not realize the importance of his catch. Said he, several months ago, to newsmen who had got wind of the agents' capture: "Men's lives are at stake. Castro can only guess who he's got-don't help him by publishing a story...
...September 1961 Castro cops burst into a room in Havana's Seguro Medico (Medical Insurance) Building. They found three Americans-Daniel Carswell of Eastchester, N.Y., Eustace Danbrunt of Baltimore, and Edmund Taransky of New York City-surrounded by electronic listening devices. All three were agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. And they were bugging the newly opened Havana headquarters of Hsinhua, a Communist Chinese "news" agency. The CIA men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in Castro's dungeons...
...Hook. Last week all three, along with 18 other Americans held by Castro for various reasons, were back in the U.S. In a swap negotiated by New York Lawyer (and unsuccessful 1962 Democratic nominee for the Senate) James B. Donovan, the U.S. gave up four Castro thugs. Three had been caught in a plot to start tossing sabotage bombs around New York. The fourth, Francisco ("The Hook") Molina del Rio, 31, was the one the U.S. most disliked to let go. A pro-Castro gunman, he got into a shooting melee with anti-Castro Cubans in a New York restaurant...
...Numbers Game. In that sense, the U.S. probably came out well ahead in dealing with Castro. But in the present state of U.S. sensitivity on the subject of Cuba, the swap could only cause controversy. And there was plenty of that already. For one thing, Bobby Kennedy, leaving a reception in Manhattan's Metropolitan Club, was gibed at by a young Cuban exile for the U.S. crackdown on hit-and-run raids against Castro. Bobby turned on him, snapping that the exiles' action amounts to "spit...
...author's view of American attitudes and their effect on relations with Cuba also neglects some issues damaging to his thesis. Draper says that the collaboration between the Communists and Castro began in 1959, "long before any overt American action was taken against the Castro regime." This matter of overt governmental hostility appears more than once in the book, but other sources of grumbling, complaint, and denunciation are never mentioned. Draper obviously has read almost everything written on Cuba since Castro. He certainly knows the reports of bewilderment and anger in Cuba over the steady criticism from certain quarters...