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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1963)
Donovan Finds Castro Talks Costly, Frustrating HERALD AMI NEWS, Klamath I alls. Ore. Tuesday, April 16. 1963 PAGE J NEW ORK i L"P1 James 1 guess my (ace is pretty well B. Donovan, the one-man freedom known by now. Three of the men train for persons imprisoned in got into a car with me and the Cuba, has been losing two things other four into another car and recently sleep and monev The Brooklyn lawyer, who ne gotiated the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners and more re cently nine American skin divers we drue to one of the four houses maintained by the Cuban Ministry of External Affairs. Everything was ready for me there and I put in a call for told in an interview todav about Castro. the physical and mental strain of Some Long Delays negotiating with Fidel Castro. j "Sometimes I get to see Castro "They work at night down right away and sometimes lirere there," he said. "One night I got I is a delay of hours. 1 stal led three hours sleep, another time i talking w ith him on Saturday and two hours and a third night none at all. Once Castro phoned me at 2 o'clock in the morning and an nounced we were going fishing at 6 o'clock. We did, too." So far as money is concerned, lawyers estimate Donovan has lost $100,000 in legal fees because of his work in rescuing prisoner tn Cuba. He is counsel for the Cuban Families Committee and serves without pay. Not that he is about to become a pauper be cause he is a member of a well known firm that has 18 lawyers on its staff. But he has made sub stantial financial sacrifices ever since he was named by the Brooklyn Bar Association to de fend the Soviet spy. Col. Rudolf Abel. Subsequently Donovan nego tiated the exchange of Abel, who was taken out of federal prison, and traded for L'2 pilot Francis (Jary Powers. That led to the doz en trips he has made to Cuba and his work is not finished yet. There are still 22 Americans held by Castro and Donovan hopes to negotiate for them in about 'a month. How docs he establish contact with Castro and go about getting into Cuba? f scs Intermediary "Well," he said, "I'll tell you ahout one weekend. On Friday, March 15, 1 was in federal court here. When I want to go to Cuba 1 make a phone call to Havana to a person who is a sort of in termediary down there. 1 had put in a call and Friday afternoon I got word that clearance had come through. "I didn't make a reservation, but 1 went out to ldlewild Airport and got a seat on an Eastern Air lines jet for .Miami. 1 always fly down there at night. At Miami 1 went to a hotel and registered under an assumed name. You have to be careful to choose a name that matches the initials on your baggage and I use Davis a lot of the time. "I only carry one bag contain ing tropical clothing and a brief case. From the hotel 1 phoned a restricted area of the Miami Air port and got in touch with Pan American which provides a small plane for the flight to Havana. 1 asked them to get clearance for me to fly across the Cuban anti aircraft batteries. It came through pretty fast this time and we took off lor Havana. "Seven men well-armed and wearing black silk suits met me at Havana. I didn't have to show a visa or a passport or anything. continued through on Sunday March 17. "Saturday he took me for an aulomobilf ride and we kept ne gotiating. He is always very cour teous and correct and he gave me a good lunch of fruit cup. chicken soup, red snapper, salad and col fee. Alsu an excellent cigar. "By Sunday 1 could seme that the negotiations weren't getting very far, so 1 decided to try the luck of the Irish. I said to Cas tro: Look, do you know what day this is? This is Saint Patrick's Day and Saint Patrick is my pa tron saint. 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Bernard O'Higgins is his name It's bad luck to deny anything to an Irishman on Saint Patrick's i Dav. and what's more vou have two American women in prison and one of them is named O'Neal.' " Appealed To Castro Somewhat to Donovan's sur prise this Celtic appeal impressed Castro. He went away for a while and then returned and said he was releasing the two women. Geraldine Schamma and Martha O'Neal. They came out of jail wearing their denim prison clothes and Donovan flew back to Miami w ith them on Sunday. "Monday morning," Donovan said. "I was back in federal court and the judge looked at me sort of surprised and asked: "Well, where have you been and what's new? Donovan's successes in Cuba have caused rumors that he is in the pay of the Central Intelli gence Agency and actually is working in behalf of the U.S. State Department in an attempt to negotiate some sort of diplo matic accommodation between Washington and Havana. Donovan says that if something plus in a ' diplomatic sense comes out of his work he will be glad, hut he stoutly denied he was working for the CIA or the State Department. "I have never even met Secre tary of State Dean Rusk," he said. "The only contact I ever have with the State Department is that I contact them before I go to Cuba I explain what my mission is and ask them if my activities would be in any way in consistent with our national pol icy. If they ever said no, I wouldn't nuke the trip, but so tar they haven't. Doesn't Know Policy "1 honestly couldn't tell you right now what our official na tional policy is toward Cuba When I first went down there Castro would ask me about Wash ington's intentions toward Cuba and I always told him I wasn't there to represent the United Slates. I was there on a private humanitarian mission." What is it that keeps driving him on missions that involve dan ger to his health and a financial sacrifice? 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