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Bay of Pigs Invasion

Signing an agreement To exchange Prisoners

Friday Dec 21, 1962
Havana, Cuba

On 21 December 1962, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and James B. Donovan, a US lawyer aided by Milan C. Miskovsky, a CIA legal officer, signed an agreement to exchange 1,113 prisoners for US$53 million in food and medicine, sourced from private donations and from companies expecting tax concessions.


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