.: ANTI-CASTRO GUERRILLAS TRAINING (CUBAN STORY PART II) (1962)

Short Summary The thirteen who were arrested for violating the United States Neutrality allegedly planned to? Description 1. MS Rebel being instructed on how to use rifle 2. Rebel demonstrating how to knife victim 3. CU Several rebels 4. 2 shots Combat practice 5. Men going through jungle and firing FILM SHOWS guerilla trainees receiving instruction in use of rifle and some shots of guerrillas running through jungle and firing combat conditions. Background: The thirteen who were arrested for violating the United States Neutrality allegedly planned to invade been training months in the Florida Keys. These scenes were filmed early in before President John F. Kennedy announced the Cuban blockade. At that were training openly amid the jungle undergrowth on Florida’s No Name Key. They simulated the conditions of guerilla warfare in Cuba. Their leader is bearded, six-foot-seven inch Gerald Patrick Hemming. He formed his so-called Intercontinental Penetration Force six months ago. It comprises ten other Americans, one Canadian and one Cuban. On Monday, 3 December, alerted Federal officers began a patient wait on another the guerrillas wrestled with the balky engine of their 31-foot invasion boat. As soon as the engine officers closed in. Seized with the men wire fifteen rifles, ten other weapons, plastic bombs and two automobiles. DATE: 06/12/1962