On June 16, 1960...
 
1960: US Diplomats Arrested at Weapons-Smuggling Meeting in Cuba
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"U.S. diplomats Edwin L. Sweet and William G. Friedman are arrested when they are found at a meeting of Cuban counterrevolutionary conspirators. They were engaged in granting asylum, financing trrbt.ttire publications and encouraging terrorist acts, including the smuggling of weapons. It is proven that Friedman and his wife "r. *.*bii, oI the FBi, and according to international law, they are expelled from the country"

Source: Escalante (1995), The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-1962. Ocean Press, p. 162
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