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to Miami International Airport. Time of arrival will be at or about 0740 (local). He will send a "MAY DAY" distress signal while off the Florida coast and inform US authorities that he has defected from the Cuban Air Force, is having engine trouble, must land in Miami, and requests asylum. The US Customs and Immigration and Naturalization authorities will take him in hand after landing. The pilot will inform these authorities that he defected from the San Antonio de los Banos airbasei that he had, before leaving the area, attacked this basei that two colleagues had also defected (from Campo Libertad base), and had attacked other Cuban air bases •. The pilot will be held under maximum security for his protectioni a press interview will be scheduled in which he will answer questions along lines set forth in preliminary briefings. He will be escorted that night by black flight from the United States to TIDE, by KUSODA [Security] personnel. 211 Both pilot and aircraft were to be reamed, steamed, dry cleaned, sterilized, and sanitized in order to make it appear tha~ a legitimate defection from Castro's Cuba had occurred. The aircraft itself was to be painted identically to the B-26's of the FAR (Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria), and it was also to be given a tail number identical to one of those used on a par- ticular Castro B-26 which was known to be inactive at the time. The pilot would be chosen on the basis of - 200 -