KENNEDY SOLD OUT BAY OF PIGS CUBAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Dec 24, 1962: Bay of Pigs prisoners fly to freedom


The last of more than 1,000 men taken prisoner at the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba has returned to the United States in time for Christmas.


The government agreed to the payment of a ransom of $53 million in food and medical supplies, donated by companies all over the USA, as a condition for their release.

The airlift of the prisoners began yesterday, when the first 107 men boarded a DC6 airliner supplied by Pan American World Airways at a military airbase near Havana.

After just four flights, however, the operation was suspended for the night, to the consternation of the thousands of anxious relatives of the prisoners, keeping vigil in Florida for their return.

Flights resumed early this morning, and by the end of the day all 1,113 prisoners had been safely returned.

A rapturous crowd of 10,000 Cuban exiles greeted each new arrival at the Dinner Key Auditorium, on the outskirts of Miami.

Police and army cordons could barely restrain the mass of cheering, flag-waving people as they surged towards the buses bringing the prisoners back.

The release was the result of almost a year of talks between the Cuban government and a New York lawyer, James B Donovan, acting on behalf of the relatives of the prisoners.

The negotiations had the covert backing of the US government.

Mr Donovan persuaded the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, to accept supplies of medicine and food instead of cash in exchange for the prisoners.

Mr Castro has demanded that a fifth of it should be delivered before Christmas Day.

The first down payment was delivered yesterday by the 6,000-ton American freighter, the African Pilot.

Full delivery of the entire list of 10,000 items, all donated by companies and organisations across the United States, is expected to take months.

The prisoners were taken after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on 17 April 1961, funded in part by the US government.

Fidel Castro's militia crushed the invasion within a few days and captured 1,200 of the 1,500 invaders.

They were sentenced to up to 30 years in prison at their trial in Havana earlier this year.

Passing sentence, the court added that a ransom of $62m would secure their release.

Cuban exiles in the United States arranged the return of 60 wounded prisoners soon afterwards for $2.5m (about £900,000).

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