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| Escambray guerrillas in 1958. Left to right: Nene Français, killed in the battle of Trinidad; Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, jailed by Castro 1965-1986; José García, killed in Cuba; Henry Fuerte, killed in the 1959 Haitian invasion; William Morgan, shot by Castro firing squad, March 1961. |
Cuban
War Aided by Second Front (N.Y. Times, April 3, 1958)
Castro
Names Toledoan To Military Post (Jan. 5, 1959)
Leader
of Castro’s Jungle Fighters Wants To Return Home To Toledo (Jan. 6,
1959)
Adventurer
Divorced By Toledo Wife (Jan. 7, 1959)
Cuba
Facing Rule By Decree For Next 18 Months (Jan. 7, 1959)
Ex-Toledoan
To Tell Cuba Story In City (Feb. 27, 1959)
Cuba
Cancels U.S. Tour By Morgan (March 4, 1959)
The
Case Of Cuba’s Maj. Alex Morgan (May 23, 1959)
New
Clashes Reported In Cuban Countryside (Aug. 11, 1959)
Toledoan
Hailed As Hero In Foiling Castro Foes (Aug. 13, 1959)
Major
Morgan Opposes Death For Plotters (Aug. 21, 1959)
Wife
Of Toledo’s Rebel Major Has Baby In Havana (Sept. 1, 1959)
Ex-Toledoan
Faces Citizenship Loss (Sept. 4, 1959)
Morgan’s
Havana Home Target Of Gunfire From Car (Sept. 4, 1959)
Morgan
to Fight Attempt to Strip U.S. Citizenship (Sept. 4, 1959)
US
Turns Down Morgan Citizenship Request (Sept. 5, 1959)
Morgan
Of Toledo Fights To Retain His Citizenship (Sept. 6, 1959)
Morgan
Held Disavowing U.S. (Sept. 22, 1959)
Quitting
U.S. Rights, Toledo Man Confirms (Sept. 25, 1959)
Morgan
Says He’ll Become Cuban Citizen (Sept. 26, 1959)
Former
Toledoan In Castro Forces Says He’s Cuban (Oct. 17, 1959)
Biggest
Cuba Conspiracy Trial Goes On (Jan. 19, 1960)
Group
In Cuban Revolt Dissolves (Feb. 28, 1960)
Dockworker
set ship blast in Havana, American claims (March 7, 1960)
Frogs
In New Command Of Toledo Major In Cuba (April 11, 1960)
Cuban
Army Discloses Arrest Of Major Morgan, Ex-Toledoan (Oct. 22, 1960)
Castro
Arrests Ex-Aide for ‘Double Cross’ (Oct. 22, 1960)
Ex-Toledoan
Reported In Cuban Prison (Nov. 16, 1960)
Toledoan
Held In Solitary, Havana Hears (Nov. 17, 1960)
Aid
To Morgan By U.S. Hinted (Nov. 18, 1960)
Cubans
Foil Morgan Plot (Dec. 4, 1960)
Llevado
W. Morgan a Juicio (March 10, 1961)
Castro
Demands Death Penalty For Ex-Toledoan (March 10, 1961)
Death
Penalty Handed Morgan By Cuban Jury (March 11, 1961)
Once
Cuban Hero, Buried as ‘Traitor’ (March 11, 1961)
Morgan
Buried In Cuban Crypt, Fugitive Wife Stays In Hiding (March 13, 1961)
Saga
Of William Morgan Ends In Cuban Cemetery (March 13, 1961)
Morgan
Killed As Anti-Red, His Note Says (March 17, 1961)
Letter
Left By Morgan Explains Fate (March 17, 1961)
Morgan’s
Widow Seized In Cuba (March 19, 1961)
Condenan
a Cinco Años de Cárcel a un Hombre y a una Mujer por Dar
Refugio a la Viuda de Morgan (April 27, 1961)
William
Morgan (June 20, 1963)
Toledoan’s
Death In Cuba Detailed (August 2, 1963)
A
Tribute to William Morgan (March 15, 1964)
Olga´s
Dream (Reader´s Digest, Dec. 1981)
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE U.S.
STATE DEPARTMENT -- CUBA
Memorandum
of a Conversation, Washington, March 12, 1959, March 12, 1959, (260)
Editorial
Note (348)
Telegram
From the Embassy in Chile to the Embassy in Cuba, Aug. 12, 1959 (353)
Telegram
From the Embassy in Cuba to the Department of State, Oct. 6, 1959, (366)
Letter
From the Ambassador in Cuba (Bonsal) to the Assistant Secretary of State
for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom), Dec. 2, 1959, (403)
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
CIA
Report, Aug. 17, 1959
CIA
Report, Sept. 1, 1959
FBI
Legat Havana, Sept. 3, 1959
Department
of State, Jan. 22, 1960
FBI
File (105-70973), March 9, 1960
U.S.
Army Intelligence, March 11, 1960
INS
Letter, March 14, 1960
U.S.
Army Intelligence, March 28, 1960
FBI
Miami Office, April 7, 1960
FBI
N.Y. Office, Feb. 3, 1961
FBI
Miami Office, April 10, 1961
BOOK MENTIONS:
The
Insurrection Herbert Matthews, The Cuban Story (1961)
The
Death of William Morgan John Martino, I Was Castro's Prisoner
(1963)
The
Counterrevolution and Trujillo Rufo Lopez-Fresquet, My fourteen
months with Castro (1966)
Morgan,
Matos and Our Pearl Harbor Paul D. Bethel, The Losers (1969)
William
Morgan: From Intrigue to Frogs Jay Mallin and Robert K. Brown, MERC:
American Soldiers of Fortune. (1979)
Chapter
21 Antonio Navarro, Tocayo: A Cuban Resistance Leader's True Story
(1981)
The
Trujillo Conspiracy Fabian Escalante, The Secret War (1995)
CEMETERY RECORDS
Colon
Cemetery, Havana
ARTICLES 2002
Cuba's
Yankee Comandante (Toledo Blade, March 3, 2002)
He
died for no reason, says wife (Toledo Blade, March 4, 2002)
An
escape from Cuba: Olga comes 'home' to Toledo (Toledo Blade,
March 5, 2002)
Search
for Toledoan’s remains is daunting (Toledo Blade, March 17,
2002)
Body
of Toledo soldier of fortune cannot be found (Toledo Blade,
April 5, 2002)
Widow
wants Cuba to return husband's remains to U.S. (South Florida Sun
Sentinel, March 4, 2002)
El
regreso de los restos de William Morgan (El Nuevo Herald, March
6, 2002)
Widow
pushes for remains of 'Yankee Commander' (The Dallas Morning News,
March 31, 2002)
Cuban
revolutionary's remains found, may be returned to Ohio (The Plain
Dealer, Dec. 22, 2002)
Toledoan
may be coming home (Toledo Blade, Dec. 22, 2002)
ARTICLES 2005
A
FIGHT FOR CITIZENSHIP
ARTICLES 2015
Amid
Cuba thaw, widow fights to bring yanqui comandante home (Miami Herald,
Feb. 22, 2015)
Remains
of American who fought with Castro then tried to oust him - only to be
brutally executed - could be returned to his wife in Ohio after more than
FIVE DECADES (Daily Mail, Feb. 22, 2015)
