Word: miro
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...weeks ago, Miro flew to Washington, held an angry, four-hour meeting with Robert Kennedy and State Department Cuba Specialist Robert Hurwitch, another four-hour session with Hurwitch alone. Miro demanded that the U.S. provide $50 million for an anti-Castro military operation, get the hemisphere to join in such a drive, and give the exiles "the same kind of help that the Soviet Union gives to Castro." The result was a flat turndown: Miro was told that the U.S. remains determined to oust Castro (presumably by economic strangulation), but that the U.S. will not permit its policies...
Cuba was most distressing: the Kennedy Administration and the Cuban exiles it had praised and supported were now fighting like fishwives. Their dispute came to a head last week with the resignation of former Havana Law Professor Jose Miro Cardona, 60, as head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council-a position for which he had been handpicked by the Administration. At issue: exile claims that the Administration had welshed on promises to help them return to their homeland and oust Castro...
...Last Straw. Among those Bay of Pigs prisoners was Miro Cardona's son Pepito. As for Miro himself, he was a staunch defender of U.S. policy toward Cuba. At the time of the Bay of Pigs, he publicly denied that the U.S. had played any part in the invasion, at the same time fought off bitter exile claims that Kennedy had let them down. Miro's defense of the U.S. cost him dearly among the exiles, many of whom came to consider him a self-seeking apologist for the Kennedy Administration...
...Administration's failure, after last October's Cuba crisis, to follow through on U.S. demands for on-site missile inspection and the removal of Russian troops, came as a staggering blow to Miro. The last straw came when the Administration, without advising Miro beforehand, announced an all-out crackdown on the exiles' hit-and-run raids against Cuba...
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...