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104-10111-10040 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (9/15/1960)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10456 and id is 1 raw text is: SUBJECT a. Da L. Christ 1. On 15 September 1960, 3 staff employees (David Christ, Thornton Anderson and Walter Sauminski) were arrested by the Cuban G-Z while in- stalling audio surveillance equipment against the New China News Agency in Havana. About the same time an Agency case officer, Robert Neet, and a stay-behind agent and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. were picked up. All px were jailed. Subsequently, Mrs. and Neet were released and deported. Z. The 3 staff employees were operating under alias Identities which have stood up to date (Daniel Carawell, Eustace Danbrunt, Edmund Taransky). The staff employees and the stay-behind agent were tried on 17 December 1960. On 10 January 1961, the staff employees were sentenced to 10 years in jail, and the stay-behind agent was ordered departed. The deportation took place shortly thereafter,, 3. Following the arrest, the 3 Agency employees were first detained at the G-Z headquarters in Havana and shortly thereafter were moved to the LaCabana prison. Itw as possible to keep them supplied with food, ne- cessities, radios, reading material, etc. On 23 January in spite of the Immediate appeal of the sentence filed by their lawyer, the 3 men were moved to the Isle of Pines where living and sanitary conditions are in- tolerable. Prisoners are required to perform hard manual labor, and there is an insufficiency of food. 4. With the assistance of Mr. Hugh Kessler, a U. S. consular of- ficial, close contact was kept with the 3 men until diplomatic relations with Cuba were severed. Through a Washington attorney, James R. Murphy, arrangements were made with a Cuban lawyer, Dr. Fernando . Colomar, to represent the 3 men in court. Colomar was not told of any Agency interest in the operation. Through the joint services of Messrs. Kessler and Colomar, the 3 men were supplied with pocket money, food, clothing, toilet articles, etc. After diplomatic relations were severed, Colomar continued to visit the men until they were trans- ferred to the Isle of Pines,

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