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OEVERAL weeks ago, in describing how we put together our cover story on the Cuba disaster, we had to soft-pedal mention of our Havana correspondent, Jay Mallin, who at the time was a "guest" in the Swiss embassy (most European nations do not recognize the right of asylum). Mallin got out last week, and the story of how he escaped arrest and made it to the embassy is told in the Hemisphere section. When he thought it safe to leave the embassy for the airport, escorted by a Swiss official, he became for 3½ hours a member...
Into the Bin. One of the luckier Americans was TIME Havana Correspondent Jay Mallin, who got out last week. The Cuban G-2 arrested him the day after invasion, questioned him, and then inexplicably released him. At 10:30 that night he heard car doors slam in the street outside his apartment house, looked out and saw his janitor leading a squad of G-2 men into the building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin...
...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...
...Worry. One day TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin slipped through the no man's land from the city of Guantánamo, slogged north by jeep and foot up muddy mountain trails and became the first newsman to bring an on-the-spot story out from the captives. His report...
Buildup. Castro has still not gained enough popular support to bounce Batista, but Reporter Mallin saw surprising military strength in the mountains. Ammunition, once scarce, is now plentiful enough to be wasted on potshots at coconuts. The armed, uniformed men in the Sierra del Cristal (where Raúl Castro holds out) and the neighboring Sierra Maestra (Fidel Castro's headquarters) total at least 2,000. The rebels have a pool of stolen trucks and jeeps, operate an airstrip into which arms are flown from some mysterious supplier...