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...journalistic record for coverage and noncoverage. Rarely have supposedly secret preparations gotten so much advance public notice. Then when the pathetically unprepared force stormed ashore, there were no correspondents along; much of the news of the fighting had to be put together from such faraway places as Miami and Guatemala. TIME's Havana correspondent, like the other U.S. newsmen in the Cuban capital, could file nothing: some reporters were rounded up by Castro's security agents; TIME's man found temporary haven in an embassy...
...President Kennedy achieved the unhappy feat of making the U.S. seem both aggressive and weak at the same time. Victory would have brought outcries against "imperialism." but at least it would have been victory. Said a Latin American diplomat to a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "You succeeded in Guatemala, and that left a scar. You failed in Cuba, and that will leave a double scar...
...Intervention. In Castro's Cuba, the New Frontier had a sort of Guatemala (where the U.S. encouraged the coup that ousted left-wing Dictator Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954). At his press conference the President limited U.S. responsibility for the war talk of exiled Cubans eager to see Castro overthrown. "There will not be under any conditions," he said, "an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." But policymaking New Frontiersmen, convinced that the U.S. will be blamed for any anti-Castro revolt, were prepared to give solid assistance (short of troop support) to ensure that a coup does...
...hospital ship standing by off the coast, launches making nightly runs to Cuba with explosives and saboteurs. Training groups of exiles were reported breaking up at a mysterious jungle-warfare camp in the Louisiana bayous, at a sabotage school near Houston, at a string of seven camps between Guatemala and Panama. Between 3,000 and 5,000 anti-Castro Cubans-some reports said 7,000-awaited the signal...
After staving off deportation since 1953 (the Justice Department could not find a nation that would take him), U.S. Mafia Mogul Carlos Marcello walked into the New Orleans office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was peremptorily handcuffed and hustled to the airport, was Guatemala-bound before he could phone his wife or pick up a toothbrush. Last week, while the American Civil Liberties Union attacked the "to talitarian tactics" of the Immigration agents, the Internal Revenue Service slapped a $835,000 tax lien on the squat mobster, charged him with leaving the country without a permit...