Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba, ten airlines, ten railroads, one shipping firm and a group of truckers chipped in with equipment and manpower-tax deductible at out-of-pocket cost. Even then, with the full ransom in hand or pledged, and with fast transportation assured, the whole effort almost fell apart. For Castro insisted on ironclad guarantees that he could collect cash for any goods not delivered, once the prisoners were set free. This meant a $53 million performance bond. Katzenbach flew to Montreal to seek such a bond from the Royal Bank of Canada, which has a representative in Cuba. "It was zero...
...After Castro had finally inspected the 20% down payment of ransom goods carried to Cuba in the freighter African Pilot, the exchange began. Suddenly Castro stopped the release of the last three planeloads of prisoners, recalled that he had not been paid $2,900,000 in cash for the release of 60 prisoners last spring. With just one telephone call, Robert Kennedy got a $1,000,000 pledge from an unidentified donor-a fund-raising feat that should qualify him for the chairmanship of the United Arab-Jewish Appeal. The sponsoring committee pledged the rest, Clay borrowed cash against...
...Bonus. When the exchange was completed, Donovan, who had been exchanging quips with Castro for hours, mentioned casually that it was a shame that the African Pilot would return to Miami empty. Castro said he would fill it with 1,000 relatives of the prisoners, called it his "Christmas bonus." Some bonus. As it turned out, 922 were permitted to sail-but only after signing over all their property and possessions to Castro's Communist government...
...Miami, one Cuban refugee said: "This affair has permitted Castro to assume the role of a humanitarian. People forget the thousands of men he has executed." He has some 70,000 political enemies still languishing in prisons and concentration camps...
Hounded out of Cuba in 1958 by Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Bosch did not return when Dictator Castro took power. "I don't say I knew he was a Communist." says Bosch. "But I felt he was not a democrat. I was afraid of what might happen...