Daughter of slain CIA pilot wins $86 million from Cuban government.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2004 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Madeline Baro Diaz

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ A woman who sued the Cuban government over

the death of her father during the Bay of Pigs invasion was awarded $86.5 million on Thursday by a Miami-Dade circuit court judge.

Thomas Willard "Pete" Ray, an Alabama Air National Guard pilot on a mission for the CIA, was executed in Cuba in April 1961. His body was kept in a Havana morgue for 18 years before the Cuban government sent...

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