Jim Noel person

“An American diplomat in Havana embassy recalls Jim Noel as keeping silent about Manuel Ray at meetings while in the corridors of the CIA station. He repeatedly tarred the man as a socialist, insisting the United States wouldn't work with hi…”

“supposedly a good guy, though despised for his ambition, he had no Latin American experience either. So he's a guy nobody likes and he has no experience in the theater. So let's just use him. The task force also included Jim Noel, former Ha…”

“Jim Noel continued to head the Havana station until the U.S. withdrew the embassy in January 1961. Supposedly, he rejected their approach. Meanwhile, they're trying to find them. That's kind of weird. The CIA men wanted to put in our hands …”

“of the fondness for Ray, claiming to have helped smuggle him out of Cuba and to have engineered the compromise that brought Ray into the Cuban exile community. An anti-Castro opposition certainly existed, but the Cubans themselves, both the…”