r 's Sister Flees, Blasts 'Island Prison' From News Dispatches Juana Castro was considered State Security Department CITY, June 30 firmly in the anti-Castro camp was dedicated solely to espio- nage and guerrilla activities Cuban exiles today hailed 31- almost from the beginning. throughout the American con- year-old Juana Castro as a Another staunch anti-Red is tinent. heroine. The sister of Cuban her sister Emma, already liv- "Cuban diplomatic pouches Prime Minister ing in Mexico. A half-brother . . . carry instructions for defected to the West because Communist agents, as well as of Fidel—Pedro Emilio Castro arms and propaganda . . . Cu- she felt Cuba had become an Argota—also is believed to ban embassies in Latin Ameri- island prison. be anti-Communist. His where- ca are nests of subverison and At a news conference here abouts are uncertain. Other espionage . . ." she said she fled Cuba for close Castro kin remain in Miss Castro compared Cuba's Army intelligence to her life six days ago and is Cuba. In a prepared statement "the worst elements of Hiller's some 75,000 political oppo- seeking political asylum in when she • arrived yesterday, Gestapo . . . terror and panic nents, Miss Castro charged. Mexico until she can return Miss Castro, her voice filled exist . . ." She denounced the regime's to a free island. She would with emotion and visibly She said there was a wide- treatment of the Roman give no details of her escape. nervous, told a tale of terror spread awareness in Cuba of Catholic Church. Her brothers The tall brunette, who said and of a "dictatorship of fear" her brother's betrayal of the did not ban it, she said, be- she had been active in the under which her country is revolution. "Many persons . . cause they feared adverse re- anti-Castro underground for living today. in the government and the action abroad, but all who at- the past four years, described She warned Latin America Army . . . are not with the tended services' were black- Cuba as an immense prison to beware "of what awaits government but dare not say listed as enemies of the re- surrounded by water. "My them" if the Latin nations do so for fear of being be- gime. brothers (Fidel and Armed not take steps now to halt the trayed . . ." "I once took part in a re- Forces Minister Raul Castro) "insidious campaign of sabo- Charges Betrayal ligious procession," she con- delivered it to Russian im- tage and Communist subver- tinued. "We were attacked by perialism in mid-1960. It is sion" which her brother is Almost breaking into tears my brother's henchmen. I saw nailed to a cross of torment carrying out throughout the at one point, Castro's sister the boy carrying the banner of imposed by international com- continent. said, "I find it most difficult the Virgin of Charity beaten munism," she said. She said one section of the to speak against members of to death by these men." my family, even Fidel. But Referring to the "reign of terror" and the "brutal dicta- torship" of her broher, Miss he has betrayed the Cuban Castro said that in Cuba to- revolution which so many of day "sons have been turned us lived and died for." against fathers" and that At no time did she permit there is "fear and terror in newsmen to ask questions. A the streets of the cities and spokesman said, "Miss Castro throughout the country." fears for her life. She wishes "Please save Cuba she to contain herself to only pleaded. "My fervent wish and those statements which she that of all freedom loving has prepared." Cubans is that the forthcom- She then spoke of her broth- ing conference of the Organ- er and his broken promises. ization of American States Bitterness crept into her voice will take definite steps against' when she related how he had the dictatorial r e g i m e of betrayed the revolution of Cuba." 1959. [Quick reaction to Miss Cas- "Fidel told us he fought in tro's defection came from the mountains to free his , Congressman Paul Rogers. country of the terrible dicta- I The Florida Democrat, des- torship of . cribing it as a great moral But we soon discovered that victory for the United States, everything Fidel had told us, urged in Washington that the had promised us, were lies. United States invite her to "He declared himself to be tour America and see democ- a follower of Marx and Lenin racy at work. Then she could and we know then that we had tell Latin America the con- been betrayed." trast between freedom and 75,000 in Jails the regime that exists in Cuba.] iTer brothers hold prisoner 4-4ff Juanita Castro, eldest sister of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, weeps during a news conference in Mexico City at which she attacked her brother's regime.