It was almost 1 1 p.m. when the unmarked speedboat dropped anchor 100 ft. off the Cuban coast near Havana.
Working quickly and silently, the six crew members inflated a rubber raft, slipped it into the chilly black waters, and loaded in two small suitcases crammed with two submachine guns, three pistols, a carbine, four hand grenades and ten blocks of explosives. Then four of the six crew members jumped aboard and pushed off for the rocky Cuban coast.
The man in charge was Antonio de la Cuesta Valle, 38, the surest and shrewdest of the anti-Castro exiles now actively trying...
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