Morgan Note Cites Betrayal by Cuban

By HAROLD K. MILKS

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HAVANA (AP)-Ohio adventurer William A. Morgan, executed by a Castro firing squad last Saturday, left behind a letter charging he was killed because he s "was the last anti-Communist with the rank of commandante (major) in the rebel army.”

Morgan, 32, of Toledo, and a native of Cleveland, whose career in Cuba moved from that of top Castro hero to alleged traitor, wrote that his military trial

I was "a history of lies and injustice."

Morgan's six-page letter was handed to the defense attorney, Edilberto Marban. It became available here after the lawyer fled Cuba because pressure from young rebels had cost him his job as director of Vedado High School.

Morgan, who was executed with his aide, Maj. Jesus Carreras, declared his captors tried three times to kill him with

Mrs. Julie Villaneuva and her son, Raymond, 3, in St. Alexis Hospital.

Plain Dealer Photo (David Vormelker}

poisoned food to avoid the who came to Cuba to join Primeļa man caught fighting receives necessity of trial. Minister Fidel Castro's forces the death penalty-he accused No government comment on in the hills during the revolt us falsely to save his own life." his charges was immediately against former dictator Fulgen-

available. Morgan, an ex-paratrooper

cio Batista, described the events leading to his arrest and trial.

Thief Another

Morgan said other witnesses against him included an 18He accused Mario Marin, his year-old soldier "who was a former driver and chief prose-homosexual and whom I caught cution witness, of testifying stealing spare parts for his new falsely to save his own life. car."

The military court which conWhile detained in Castro's/ demned Morgan gave Marin 15 army intelligence headquarters, years' imprisonment. Morgan said, he became violent"Marin was taken prisoner ly ill "because of something I in the mountains with gun in ate, and it's only because I hand fighting the militia,” Mor| drank a quart of milk and gan wrote. "He surrendered vomited that I am still alive." when he was out of ammunition Later, in death cells at La and two days later accused me Cabana fortress prison, he said, of sending him to the moun"we found ground glass in our tains. But he went to the food twice. We did not eat any mountains two weeks after I more prison food for a week, was in solitary confinement. only milk and crackers which The law of the revolution says other prisoners gave us.”