Word: miro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to Miami, Miro wrote out a highly emotional, 25-page statement of grievances. Instead of making it public, he sent it to the State Department and awaited the reaction-which was brutally swift in coming. State issued a statement accusing Miro of "gross distortions," threatened to cut off the $100,000-a-month subsidy it has been slipping the Revolutionary Council through...
...Vanguard." Miro had only one course open to him: he resigned from the Revolutionary Council, released his statement. Miro told of his "two bitter years" since the Bay of Pigs, claimed that shortly after the invasion "Kennedy planned with me the immediate future of Cuba," including "help for the clandestine forces in Cuba" and "a single Army corps" of Cuban exiles...
...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...
...would seem almost incredible that Kennedy had made any specific invasion promises to Miro, and at week's end the President told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that no one in the Administration ever promised Miro "or anyone else, that we were going to launch a military invasion with six divisions." Said an Administration aide: "Good God, we have all sorts of contingency plans, but we never could and never would spill the details to «-Miro." A fellow exile leader, Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, said: "I never knew of a promise by President Kennedy...
Most probably Miro's burning wish may have made him think he heard what he wanted to hear. Still, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Miro had been treated rather shabbily and that there was only one real beneficiary of the unseemly squabble: the Castro government, which, for a change, accurately reported the news on Havana radio...