NEW YORK, April 21, 1961 (UPI)-Jose Miro Cardona, chief of the exiled anti-Castro forces, declared today that the abortive invasion of Cuba last Monday was mounted without any "military aid" from the United States. "The United States should not intervene militarily against the Castro regime," said Cardona at a press conference here. "I have said repeatedly this is a Cuban fight by Cubans against Cubans."
Miro Cardona came here from his secret headquarters for his first public appearance since the Cuban Revolutionary Council, of which he is president, launched its first full-fledged military attack on Cuba. He repeated previous denials that the attacking force numbered several thousand men.
Miro Cardona said only several hundred men were involved in the invasion and the majority of them "succeeded in moving inland' where they are continuing the fight against Castro's troops.
The 59-year-old former prime minister in Castro's original government made an emphatic plea for "material and moral support from the United States and all the nations of Latin America" for the continuing struggle.
Echoing President Kennedy's warning yesterday, Miro Cardona said, "Cuba cannot be permitted to be the abandoned Hungary of America.
"Either Cuba throws off the yoke that oppresses it with the coordinated force of all the nations of this continent or this hemisphere will succumb inevitably before the thrust of the Soviet empire. Either we destroy the Moscow-Havana-Peking axis or they will destroy us, one by one," he added.
