[DesertRhino]

Northwood, mockingbird

[Mr. K]

Any ‘diplomat’ involved in a criminal plot should be reclassified as an enemy combatant, and lose diplomatic immunity.

[gattaca]

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[Ancesthntr]

In keeping with his “bull in the China shop” reputation, I would love to see President Trump tweet about this...just to make the Leftists go nuts, and remind the history-challenged among us aware of who the Communists were and are.

[NFHale]

Wow... you mean to say that the FBI was actually PROTECTING Americans back then, instead of helping democrats subvert the Country like now????

Amazing... /s (as if it’s needed)

[ScaniaBoy]

Wow!! Never heard about this. But why would I? Our PM for much of my youth (Palme (1969-76, 1982-86) was an ardent admirer of Fidel Castro and so were many in the Swedish Foreign Office. And of course our servile media followed suit.

BTW Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station - all military targets of course! /s (if needed)

[cynwoody]

One by one the ringleaders were methodically ambushed. The first was named Roberto Santiesteban, who worked as a Cuban “diplomat” at the UN. He was nabbed while walking down Riverside Drive. As the agents closed in, Santiesteban saw them and –took off, while jamming paper in his mouth and chewing furiously.

Googling this dude produces copious hits on a surgeon in Lexington, VA (of all places) and precious little on a Cuban terrorist. I was about to proclaim fake news, but, on the second page of search results was a link to one Roberto Santiesteban Casanova.

Googling Roberto Santiesteban Casanova is much more productive. E.g., here is a contemporaneous (nov-17-1962) story:

View the rest here. That's Roberto pictured at bottom.

They were clearly up to no good, but there is no mention of the 0.5 kt of TNT:

It seems this case blew over relatively quickly. From 19 November 1962:

Sabotage Suppliers Sent Home

NEW YORK (UPI) -A Cuban husband and wife diplomatic team accused of supplying a three-mem-ber sabotage ring with weapons will leave the United States this afternoon, it was announced today. A spokesman for the U. S. Mission to the United Nations said Jose Gomez Abad, 31, and his wife, Elsa, 20. members of the permanent Cuban mission to the United Nations, will leave aboard an Aeronaves de Mexico flight at 2 p.m. PST. One to Trial Government legal experts sa:d another Cuban. U. N. attache Roberto Santiesteban Casanova, 27, was the leader of the ring and would be brought to trial for espionage. Santiesteban was held in $250,000 bail. He and two others, Jose Garcia Orellana, 42. and Atononio Suerio Cabreara, 22. were arrested by the FBI Saturday on espionage and conspiracy charges. The government said they planned to plant bombs in Manhattan department stores during the busy Christmas season and touch off fires at oil refineries in northern New Jersey. Seek Release Cuban diplomats worked feverishly to gain Santiesteban's release. He arrived in the United States Oct. 3 under a diplomatic passport as an attache on the mission. At the time of his arrest, however, his diplomatic papers were still being processed by the State Department. U. S. legal experts said because of this Santiesteban could be brought to trial. The FBI raided Garcia's place of business, a costume jewelry store, and found a cache of guns and explosives.

From The Nuclear Deception: Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Servando Gonzalez:

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