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104-10111-10040 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/15/1960)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72307 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10111-10040 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SUBJECT Mrs. David L. Christ 1. On 15 September 1960, 3 staff employees (David Christ. Thornton Anderson and Walter Szuminski) were arrested by the Cuban G-2 while in- stalling audio surveillance equipment against the New China News Agency in Havana. About the same time an Agency case officer, Robe oNeet, and' a stay-behind agent and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. (Mario Nordio ere picked up. Allix were jailed. Subsequently. Mrs. .Nordio)and Neet were released and deported. - = Z. The 3 staff employees were operating under alias identities which : have stood up to date (Daniel Carswell, 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 deported. The deportation took place shortly thereafter. 3. Follow ing the arrest, the 3 Agency employees were first detained at the G-2 headquarters In Havana and shortly thereafter were moved to the LaCabana prison. It was 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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