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[28]S-E-C-R-E-T REPORT NO. CS DB-312/01409~-68
[30]; “OATE DISTR. 28 June 1968
[31]country Cuba
[33]por “Late April 1968 ; .
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[37]_ SUBJECT Prison Break at El] Principe Prison fo tite .
[38]in Havana
[40]aca Canada, Ottawa (25 June 1968) FIELD NO.
[42]SOURCE An official Canadian service: from officials in Havana.
[44]i 1. In late April 1968 there was a successful prison fo
[45]bow break at the El Principe Prison in Havana.: A group of ota
[46]: prisoners escaped by digging a tunnel to the courtyard of :
[47]a neighboring hospital. After the escape, ex-Major H
[48]Rolando Cubela cades, who was convicted in March 1966 -
[49]for plotting to \assassinate Fidel Castro, was transferred 1
[50]from El Principe ‘to a prison in Oriente Province. |
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[56]} 2. %It was rumored that Huber Matos, imprisoned since
[57]i October 1959, was one of the. escapees. However, according
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[62]Matos and 20 other political prisoners were still in Gal-
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[65]me, lery 23 of that prison, Although none of them wore’ prison : i :
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