Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, Miro flew to Washington, held an angry, four-hour meeting with Robert Kennedy and State Department Cuba Specialist Robert Hurwitch, another four-hour session with Hurwitch alone. Miro demanded that the U.S. provide $50 million for an anti-Castro military operation, get the hemisphere to join in such a drive, and give the exiles "the same kind of help that the Soviet Union gives to Castro." The result was a flat turndown: Miro was told that the U.S. remains determined to oust Castro (presumably by economic strangulation), but that the U.S. will not permit its policies...
...resignation of former Havana Law Professor Jose Miro Cardona, 60, as head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council-a position for which he had been handpicked by the Administration. At issue: exile claims that the Administration had welshed on promises to help them return to their homeland and oust Castro...
...Kennedy had said: "Mr. Nixon hasn't mentioned Cuba very prominently in this campaign. He talks about standing firm in Berlin, standing firm in the Far East, standing up to Khrushchev, but he never mentioned standing firm in Cuba-and if you can't stand up to Castro, how can you be expected to stand up to Khrushchev? . . . While we cannot violate international law, we must recognize that these exiles and rebels represent the real voice of Cuba and should not be constantly handicapped by our immigration and Justice Department authorities...
Again, last December, when the Bay of Pigs prisoners were ransomed from Castro, Kennedy greeted them at Miami's Orange Bowl, and, with a fervor that set the exiles aflame, proclaimed: "I can assure you that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana...
...another talk, on April 10, 1962, Miro said, Kennedy told him in "an emphatic, conclusive and decisive manner" that the solution to the Castro problem "was essentially military-of six divisions." Miro insists that this was a specific invasion pledge and that the exiles would be part of the operation. "I left the White House with the certainty that there was approaching the liberation of the fatherland with the Cuban presence in the vanguard of combat," wrote Miro grandly. But then came disillusion. "The struggle for Cuba is in the process of being liquidated by the Government," Miro concluded...