An interview with Capt. Orestes Acosta, who said he was one of the Cuban Air Force pilots who attacked Cuban cities Saturday, was released early today by United Press International.
        The interview was obtained by radio-telephone, on condition that the "foreign country" to which Captain Acosta had fled would not be disclosed.
        The flier said he was giving his story because Premier Fidel Castro had ridiculed reports that the attacking planes had taken off from Cuba.
        The interview follows:
        "I am slender, black-haired, just a plain Cuban.
        "I learned to fly with Eduardo Ferrer and Miguel Yabur. I never flew for Batista [Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba]. I joined the Air Force after the triumph of the Revolution. Before that I was a soldier in Escambray.
        "I defected because there's pure communism in Cuba now. Nobody can take it any more.
        "I took off Saturday morning in my regular plane, a T-33 jet trainer converted for combat. I had no bombs. I did not carry bombs on patrol.
        "I plan to return to Santiago soon, but I'll keep to myself just when I will return.
        "I lived in Santiago, but was born in Santa Clara, Las Villas Province. I had been planning to defect for about three months. We had prior consultations with people outside, but it was our own idea and we carried it out on our own initiative.
        "I arrived at the airport about 5 A.M. Saturday, flew for about an hour, then rendezvoused in the air at a pre-determined place with my two companions. We attacked our respective targets simultaneously. My target was Santiago.
        "I machine-gunned plenty. I completely destroyed a Sea Fury [a British-made propeller-driven fighter] on the ground.
        "It is absurd and typically Communist to say that the planes were flown by Americans. Castro is used to lying like that.
        "The Castro air force has about six jets. He now has less. Mine went. He has about six Sea Furys, two P-51's, D-C3's and PBY's. He has many helicopters.
        "There are many Czech pilots in Cuba. They say they are there to fight. Personally I have not seen them fight. But they are there and they say they are ready to fight.
        "There are about eighty Cuban pilots now training in Czechoslovakia, but some of them have already returned.
        "I think I've talked about enough for tonight."