It has been further suggested that Castro will let them leave provided the United States makes another contribution to his government of $10 million in medical supplies. Is this the best the State Department can do for our own citizens? We spend more than $115 million annually for refugees all around the worldbut apparently our own citizens trapped under a Communist dictatorship 90 miles from our shores will have to buy their way outpay their own ransom whereas Cubans come out at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer. 1" The record of the administration with respect to the American citizens jailed in Cuba for political crimes is even more pitiful. Following the Bay of Pigs fiasco. the then Attorney General. personally took charge of the prisoner exchange negotiations. Other secret emissaries were sent tonegotiate with Castro and shiploads of medical supplies were paid in tribute to secure the release from jail of Cuban citizens who had fought to overthrow the Castro regime.
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