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In September 1961 Castro cops burst into a room in Havana's Seguro Medico (Medical Insurance) Building. They found three Americans—Daniel Carswell of Eastchester, N.Y., Eustace Danbrunt of Baltimore, and Edmund Taransky of New York City—surrounded by electronic listening devices. All three were agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. And they were bugging the newly opened Havana headquarters of Hsinhua, a Communist Chinese "news" agency. The CIA men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in Castro's dungeons.
Off the Hook. Last week all three, along with 18 other Americans held by Castro for various reasons, were back in the U.S. In...
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