HAVANA, Nov. 16 (AP)—Cuban sources said today that William A. Morgan of Toledo, arrested last month on suspicion of counterrevolutionary activity, is being held – incommunicado and in solitary confinement – at La Cabana Fortress.
Mr. Morgan and many other former officers in Fidel Castro’s army have been detained on accusations that they aided insurgents in the Escambray mountains.
That area was where Mr. Morgan became a leader three years ago and led guerilla forces known as “The Tigers of Escambray” against the forces of Dictator Fulgencio Batista
Mr. Morgan lost his U.S. citizenship for fighting at Fidel Castro’s side during the revolution. During the early days of the Castro regime, Mr. Morgan was put in charge of the southern port city of Cienfuegos.
The 31-year-old American became a Cuban citizen. Mr. Castro publicly honored him last year for posing as an anti-Castro leader and baiting a trap that helped smash a reported conspiracy against the revolutionary government.
Cuban newspapers controlled by the government have not mentioned Mr. Morgan’s case since his arrest was announced Oct. 21. Mr. Morgan had dropped his army work early this year to head a project to raise giant frogs for export.
Other Cuban sources said the ex-driver for President Osvaldo Dorticos and other former place workers also are being kept at Lacabana in connection with a plot to kidnap the Cuban president.