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Robert Vesco had escaped for so long it seemed he had escaped from memory. When the Cuban government announced last week that it had placed the fugitive American financier under arrest, Vesco was little more than a cipher, a relic from an earlier generation, recalled in vague outline for his criminal odyssey around the Caribbean and for a broad range of roles -- millionaire, gambler, stock cheat, illegal campaign contributor, Watergate shadow, drug dealer, scoundrel. He was, for archaeologists of roguery, the fossil evidence that money can buy power and immunity from the reach of the law. Now, suddenly and surprisingly...
...know more, please direct your inquiries to Villa Marista." Villa Marista is the headquarters of Cuba's state police, who deal with only the most sensitive cases and do not give up secrets easily. Was Vesco under arrest? "Yes," confirmed the guard. "He is under investigation." On Saturday the Cuban Foreign Ministry said Vesco was under suspicion of being a "provocateur and agent for foreign special services." The country involved was not identified...
Robert Vesco, one of the two or three most wanted U.S. fugitives for more than 20 years, is now the focus of a diplomatic poker game between Havana and Washington. Last week, Cuban officials quietly notified American officials that they had detained the rogue financier, who fled the U.S. during the Watergate scandals amid charges of massive embezzlement and bribing the Nixon re-election campaign. (A major drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations...
President Clinton should be commended for his ethical and principled decision to admit the Cuban refugees at Guantanamo to the U.S. [CUBA, May 15]. He has taken some flak from that small minority of ultra-conservative Cuban Americans who would have been happy to let their Cuban brothers and sisters rot at Guantanamo, but instead of caving in to their pressure, Clinton took the moral high ground. Cuban Americans will think highly of him for allowing the rrunification of Cuban families. RAYMUNDO DEL TORO, PRESIDENT Cuban American Commmittee for Peace Linden, New Jersey
...bureau got a telephone call from a friendly insurance adjuster informing them that Motorin had been in a car accident. There was a hooker in the car. Not long afterward, the FBI watched Motorin walk into a store in downtown Washington and barter his operational allowance of vodka and Cuban cigars for stereo equipment. Using these indiscretions as leverage, the FBI persuaded him to begin spying for the U.S. He identified for the FBI the name of every KGB agent in the Soviet embassy in Washington. At each of its meetings with Motorin, the FBI gave him a modest cash...