The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-11-22
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19-Those

Ing the first SIX months OF 1858
as part of the Bay of Pigs prls-
oner-rarsom exchange weren't
all CubanS.
Among the refugees we're 1893
aliens born in countries other
than Cuba ~ including num-
Der Of nationals from Commun-
ist China. Russia. Poland and
Hungary.
Largest group of these aliens
brought to the u S. bv the
American Red Cross vessels that
carried the ransom supplies to
Cuba were go from Spain. IS
from Poland. u from Turkey, IL
from Communist China, 10 from
Germany. and from Lebanon
Other foreigners among the
refugees included nationals from
Argentina, 3. Bahamas. I. Bra
gil. 3: British West Indies. l;
Canada, 3. Chile. /. Colombia,
O. Costa RIGA. 2, Denmark. |:
Dominican Republic. 2, England,
); France, |: Greece. |; Hon
duras. |, Hungary. |; italy, 2.
Lthuania. 4, Mexico. A; Mo
rocco, / Norway, |. Panama,
/, Peru, |; Portugal, 3; Russia,
3; Switzerland, 5; Syria, 5; and
Venezuela, 2
These and other even more in
| tllguing details are included in
the latest chapter on the back
| stage negotiations Of the Bay Of
Pigs prisoner exchange to be
revealed by the House judiciary
Subcommittee making an in
quiry into the entire Cuban refu-
gee program.
H e d e d by Representative
Michael Feighan. D-Ohio. the
subcommittee is releasing 10
pages of closed-door testimony
this week, including an admis-
sion by Abba p Schwartz, adj
ninistrator of the State Depart
ment's Bureau Of Security and
Consular Affairs. that Castro
was permitted to designate 50
per cent Of the Cuban refugees
THE $3.50" DEAL - The Sc
cret $3.50 deal, first revealed in
this column. has been vigorously
denied by both the State De
partment and the White House
In releasing the subcommit-
tee S hearings this week. Repre-
sentative Felghan challenged the
denlals, stating.
The testimony before our
subcommittee of A b b a P
Schwartz. administrator of the
Bureau Of Security and Consul
lar Affairs, shows conclusively
that a deal was worked out with
Castro whereby he was per
mitted to designate so per cent
Of the Cuban refugees allowed tc
come to the U. S. as part Of the
Bay Of Pigs prisoner exchange
TO support his statement. Rep
resentative Feighan pointed out
five references to the $3.50 deal
in Schwartz S testimony, includ-
ing these remarks
Mr.. Castro insisted that or
each ship on which we were
bringing American citizens anc
immediate dependents. 50 pei
cent Of that capacity be Cuban
nationals, not necessarily rela-
tlves Of these American citizens
In other words. if we had a
ship that held 700 people, so pei
cent of that capacity was fol
American citizens and immedi
ate dependents and such persons
as we designated. Fifty per cent
OF that was for passage Of Cuban
nationals to whom Mr.. Castro
had given exit permits. That was
the arrangement
This is where the priority
system comes on our side anG
We imposed that on the 50 pei
cent MI. Castro designated the
same priority system.
The transcript of the hearings
shows and exchange between
Schwartz and Representative
Richard Poff. Diva. in which
the latter inquired about the
screening Of refugees. stating:
This applies TO our 50 per
cent capacity and the Castro
quota
h Replied Schwartz. "Ycs. one
hundred per cent Of the ship.
load.
THE OTHER REFUGEES IN
| The revelation of the aliens
among the Cuban refugees is
highighted for The first time in
an immigration Service memo
randum requested by Reprcsen-
tatlve Feighan and included in
the published hearings.
Related testimony in the hear
ines showed that at least ID OF
4 the refugees were detained fol
security reasons and then al
lowed to migrate to other coun.
tries in tho Western Hemisphere
In light of these startling dis
coNerles in the first six months
Of 1858. Representative Felghar
has asked the immigration Serv
lce TO furnish the subcommittee
with the numter Of alenS. other
than CubanS Who have come