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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/26 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000707050002-2 SPOTLIGHT 23 March 1981 ra America, en days. on laboratory: Whee the. op: portunity to | play their’ trade. was. unlimited. A ~ RConir) : to teste! *fi oe devices nay have‘ installed* “indersea intelligence-gathering* ‘electronics’ in ~Ametican Sea. Janes” Off _the Virgin. Islands.” ~ se potty : 3 Searwely tevasal ecig cack swe 2 The, ‘SPOT IGHT has earne from a a. free Cuban source that 13 .Red- Cuba arrived’ on, the American: island of St. Croix about 6 pm on February~ 23. -The:Cuban. aircraft had departed from poe Cuba. around. 2 15 pm. the same day,-a free Cuban source said.o- sori sd: denad.o: tae: for a0 - Four divers. Teportedly among. the 13- Cubans ‘were iG spend seven: ‘days: sabmerged i in- ‘the: :U.S.-owned undersea laboratory called the ‘‘Hydro- Lab Habitats2?:The: remaining Cubans ‘were to act as a support team on the sur- face. …
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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/26 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000707050002-2 SPOTLIGHT 23 March 1981 ra America, en days. on laboratory: Whee the. op: portunity to | play their’ trade. was. unlimited. A ~ RConir) : to teste! *fi oe devices nay have‘ installed* “indersea intelligence-gathering* ‘electronics’ in ~Ametican Sea. Janes” Off _the Virgin. Islands.” ~ se potty : 3 Searwely tevasal ecig cack swe 2 The, ‘SPOT IGHT has earne from a a. free Cuban source that 13 .Red- Cuba arrived’ on, the American: island of St. Croix about 6 pm on February~ 23. -The:Cuban. aircraft had departed from poe Cuba. around. 2 15 pm. the same day,-a free Cuban source said.o- sori sd: denad.o: tae: for a0 - Four divers. Teportedly among. the 13- Cubans ‘were iG spend seven: ‘days: sabmerged i in- ‘the: :U.S.-owned undersea laboratory called the ‘‘Hydro- Lab Habitats2?:The: remaining Cubans ‘were to act as a support team on the sur- face. ‘The'Hydro:Labii is located in 60 feet of water near the rim of.a protected’ cove; ‘about 15: minutes’ ‘out by: motorboat from the, mouth of Salt es where the Hydro-Lat S land base is ‘situated. yt wee eo ef pee “The alleged’ purpose ¢ of the Cuban mission was to study. various types ae fish and their, behavior. toward fish traps. After.a brief period of pressuriza-. tion, ‘the four: men in ‘the lab were free to walk around on the ocean floor and: conduct-§ experiments... they.had _been sent to perform.:The experiments’ weres pre-determined -in Havana ‘and-were not, “subject to, monitoring: by: U.S. techni-: : ‘Gians=. The, same. applied: to" the “tests: “equipment. brought .with..the- team frome ; Cubacac. reaver iéce Teas Ba: 2 rae CUBAN MISSION. COMPLETED 34.0! 2: res8-3 s9.In a*statement to The:SPOTLIGHT: on-March:8,:the-National” Oceanic. and“ Atmospheric: ‘Administration’: * (NOAA): : under- the: U S.., Department; ¢ of ‘Com-., merce--owner *: cand: operator of. the. Hydro-Lab—said,..the: ‘Cuban: mission: was..completed: and,.the. iteam, was; len route back-to-Cuba.ss 4errets Rahs »The.NOAA< said.the Cubans, arrived at, Sts Croix on February 22 and were taken. to-the Hydro-Lab land base for. prelim- inary training.. The spokesman ‘said one of ..the-:divers::".Gaspar® ‘'Gonzalez- Sampson,,- broke .an- eardrum during: training and was replaced.by:- Kevin Mc-; Carthy, an’ American diver: for. West In-: wor} cont | Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/26 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000707050002-2