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...Castro then as "democrat by philosophy, autocrat by personality." In recent months so many Cuban exiles have stopped by to see Halper in Manhattan that "they said I ran the Cuban underground railroad in New York." Shuttling between Miami and New York last week he spent many hours with Miró Cardona (the man on this week's cover) and other exile leaders, seeing how little they were consulted about what happened, the general lack of readiness, the confusion and the catastrophic end. Watching them bear up under disaster, Halper became more convinced than ever that "they are quite...
...courageous men who returned to Cuba determined to do what they could to assist the people in establishing freedom in that island. The affair did not appear to be a full-scale invasion." The man nominally in charge of the battle against Castro, onetime Havana Attorney José Miró Cardona, 58, head of the Revolutionary Council of anti-Castro exiles in whose name the landing was made, flew with the council to Washington for three anguished conferences with President Kennedy. Then the council issued a statement: "The recent landing in Cuba was in fact a landing mainly of supplies...
...Beach. On D-day-minus-one, a fleet of invasion ships, painted black and equipped with guns and radar in New Orleans, steamed toward Cuba. That afternoon Miró and his Revolutionary Council were driven from Manhattan to Philadelphia by the CIA and flown to a secret rendezvous in Florida, where they could be held in readiness to move into the first available chunk of "free Cuba." They were lodged in an old house near an abandoned airfield, surrounded by a swarm of agents, ordered to stay put. At one point, some of the council members announced that they were...
Prelude to Invasion? As the news hit the wires, José Miró Cardona, head of the exile Revolutionary Council in Manhattan, proclaimed the attack a last salute to Fidel Castro by defecting members of the Cuban Air Force. "Before flying their planes towards freedom, these true revolutionaries attempted to destroy as many Castro military planes as possible." The well-coordinated, professionally executed mission was known to the council beforehand, said Miró Cardona. "We have been in contact with, and have encouraged these brave pilots." He added that "military security" prevented further explanation...
...even much of the U.S. press seemed to be getting set to report an invasion of Cuba, Miró Cardona and his Revolutionary Council insisted (as they have for months) that they have no plans for a massive, ramps-down landing on fortress Cuba, but contemplate many small infiltrations from outside and massive sabotage inside, which will in time signal a general uprising by Cubans against the Castro dictatorship. The rebels believe that a third of Castro's much ballyhooed, 200,000-man militia will shoot, one third will head for home, and another third will turn their guns...