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Prio Socarras, Ex-Cuban President, Aides, Arrested; Government Charges They Conspired to Send Arms to Cuba
MIAMI, Fla. — Cuba's former President Carlos PRO Socarras and his interior minister were under heavy bonds today on a charge of conspiring to export arms and implements of war from the United States without a license. "The implication is quite clear that these munitions were to be used for a revolution in Cuba," said U.S. Dist. Atty. James L. Guilmartin. PRO, 50, and Segundo Curt, 43, his interior minister until Fulgencio Batista overthrew his regime in a bloodless coup on March 10, 1952, were taken in custody at Prio's home-in-exile here yesterday following their indictment in New York. They were brought in by Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Peoples and booked and fingerprinted at the Federal Building. Prio was released under $4,000 bond and Curt on $9,900 bond. They were among nine persons named in the indictment. Names of the others were withheld pending their arrest. Five others were named in a separate complaint filed here before U.S. Commissioner Roger Edward Davis with conspiring to ship 30 M1 carbine rifles to Cuba. Three of them were brought in by U.S. customs authorities who said they had worked on the case since April, 1952. They were booked as Jesse A. Vickers, 52, Miami Springs, described by his attorney as "in the airplane business"; Efren Rudolfo Pichardo, 80, Miami, and Marcus Diaz y Lara, 18, Cuban in this country on visitor's permit. Vickers' bond was set at $15,000 and the others at $5,000 each. Davis set a preliminary hearing
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Landing of the Granma
Granma is a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot (18 m) diesel-powered vessel was built in 1943 by Wheeler Shipbuilding of Brooklyn, New York, as a light armored target practice boat, US Navy C-1994, and modified postwar to accommodate 12 people.
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Wikipedia →Carlos Prío Socarrás
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