The New York Times
July 4, 1958, 7

Aid To Castro Denied

Larrazabal Says No Planes Flew Venezuelan Arms

Special to The New York Times
CARACAS, Venezuela, July 3- Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, provisional President, denies emphatically today that any planes bearing arms for Fidel Castro, the Cuban insurgent leader, had been sent from Venezuela. The President said the report was “completely false.”
 During his weekly press conference, in answer to a question concerning possible extradition of the former President and dictator, Gen. Marcos Peréz Jiménez, Admiral Larrazabal said he was of the opinion that it would be better if the former President did not return to Venezuela.
 Admiral Larrazabal declares his government would not even consider the question of recognizing the Soviet Union. He said that was a subject for the next constitutional government not for his provisional one.