To hear the Kennedy Administration tell it. it was all out of the goodness of the American citizens' heart. Except for the sentimental support of such as Jack and Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. Government was playing no part whatever in the deal to pay ransom to Cuba's Fidel Castro.
That, at least, was the claim—but the fact was much stranger than the fiction.
> Hour after hour and day after day last week, planeloads, truckloads and trainloads of goods poured into Florida for shipment to Cuba. The stuff—much of it handled by U.S. Air...
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