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Md . iways bothering about stuff like that when they couldjort,27.lt;«DESCRIBES HIS PARTre-reat-nnisMd..suf-com-rightMarineCastrosd inising'Uild-usedoverSpytire.Iate fimpristron of stHaiimprto Miii tifor lt;he dShot At Guantanamoa liihadWhorngove(-footpret-therretediate on said : ex-t into ten a owedPHILADELPHIA lt;AP' - William A Szili. former Marine lieutenant, said Saturday in a Philadelphia Bulletin copyrighted story that everybody thought it was ridiculous for the Navy to let a man he labeled a Castro spy roam free, “but nobody did anything about it.”got hold of it This was around the time President Kennedy was pushing the Alliance for Progress It was not too long after the Bayof Pigs thing. We didn’t want to cause an international incidentSzili said, there was a party at the Leeward Point commander's quarters, a lot of drinking and “someone blabbedStatiftftierat-Wil-jn is )macit 10land.Describing the shooting of Ruben Lopez, a Guantanamo Bay Naval Base employe, in a story carrying his by-line and related to Joseph F. Lowry, Bulletin staff writer, Szili said:“We just had to keep this a secret. We knew this thing could get well out of proportion if Castro“I suppose you'd think that since the Cuban was shot in self defense there would be no reason to hide it from our superiors. Well, things happened so fast that (Capt. Arthur J.) Jackson threw the body over the cliff before he could collect his thoughts And once that body lay there a couple of days, he couldn't go in and report. ‘I shot a guy two days ago ’ A week or so after the incident.Szili begins his story this way: “I’m the Norristown man who got railroaded out of the Marine Corps with three other officers for helping dispose of the body of a Cuban spy my superior officer shot in self defense.“Our outfit, Company D. was at Guantanamo only a few weeks when I learned that Ruben Lopez was a spy for Fidel Castro.” the story continues. “Most of the guy# knew about him Everybody thought it was ridiculous for theLaosant,mutiThagreworkSUJS DAY’StyingMl lv imar-ocket y es-Recanitulatioii Of 44 Billsem-sman it theREVIEW of 44 islative billsSee Page 11.local leg-to dateBooks56s not imateHORSEY session held byU N. delegates 3COOPER will wear pressure suit for protection. 4Bridge ResultsCivil WarClassifiedCoin-AgeCrosswordEditorialFinancialTn The Services1014 51-555030 6 738-3915Readers’ Point of View Recreation Club NewsScience for You Sports 33StampsStan Windhom7161840566Straight from the Shoulder TV Previews631Navy to let this man roam free But nobody did anything about it.That is. until Capt Arthur JJackson — he's the Medal ofHonor winner who killed Lopez— and I learned he was a bus driver truci and was taking a keen interest cur, in the ammunition magazine area the where Company D's positions u.s..were.“Jackson was the company tianecommander I was its executive xh officer. This made Lopez's snoop- ates ing our business. then“So one night about two months sharlt; after we were shifted to Gitmo romi from Camp Lejeune. N C., Jack- the ( son and I had a talk with Lopez guar It was a Saturday in October. Laos as I remember it. How could I; Thi forget'' Lopez was about my size. ada. five-eleven, 180 pounds, and 40 Hayears old.“Jackson and I went up to Lo- printi pez He was at the bar of the Amei bachelor officers quarters. We troub told him we didn’t want him get- cuse ting out of his bus near our re- same stricted area, that we didn't want by th him taking any picture* around there.“The Cuban left. I had a few force drinks, perhaps six martinis, then Hai went to bed Jackson drifted off.Around 11 30 pm, a Navyposetfalseattac«*Khru31* Ilieutenant—the provost marshal Minis
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Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sarasota, Florida, US
Sun, Apr 28, 1963
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