8/13/2019 Marita Lorenz Articles http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/marita-lorenz-articles 1/54 MY : LOVE A F F A Ma. rlta Lorenz was a 20 -year-old German- - born beauty when she met Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro In 1959, two months after his overthrow of the Batista regime. Castro had an eye for pretty ladles and he was smitten by Marlta, a naturalized American. They carried on a passionate love affair for eight months. _ But following a crude abortion apparently ordered by Castro's henchmen, Marlta made , a daring escape from Cuba to the U.S. and Marlta Castro 8 mls
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r-l Frank A. Sturgis, one o the five bur-g glars caught in the Watergate break-in,
has been arrested by the New York City1:, police on charges of threatening a womanat to prevent her from testifying before theto House Committee on Assassinations.
Mr. Sturgis w s arrested late Mondaynight at the apartment of Marita Lorenz,
'na •t was one or mose games, ~ t u r g s oeueves, tnat got him aralmost killed in New York City on Halloween night.
' 'My theory is that there's a communist conspiracy and that they usAnd now, she in turn, was using me. 1 believe she was setting me ubodily harm. ·
Sturgis told MID -NIGHT/GLOBE that h believes Marita brain
washed , druggeerce<l mtO--wQrking for the
Tliat' s why, he says, shetold newspapers and theHouse AssassinationsCommittee that he was withher, Lee Harvey Oswald andothers in two cars bound forDallas from Miami to kill
lowered and the budos (beardedones) swarmed aboard like pirates, gre
nades dangling from their belts andmachine g u n s swinging from theirshoulders.
Women in evening gowns screamedand ran for cover with their dinnerjacketed husbands, believing the shipwas being raided by bandits. But otherAmerican tourists recognized the leaderof the sinister-looking band as FidelCastro, the new prime minister of Cuba,and they crowded around him for auto
oner ana J. oo•n nru.gn·ea. MY. Taonersaid I was going back to Germany tofinish my education."
Castro promised to write to her, soshe gave him two addresses-her parents' home in Bremen, Germany, andher brother's apar-tment in New York,where she planned to stay wl:.en theCaribbean cruise ended. She never expected to see or hear from Fidel again.
About two weeks later, two Cubanofficers called on Marie in New York.They carried a message from Castro,saying he was in desperate need of anEnglish-German translator. He had senta Cubana Airlines plane to bring her
back to Havana."l made a big mistake," Marie said.
"I got on that plane."During the flight to Havana, she
tried to dmagine her life in Castroland.She thought she would have a desk inthe premier's secretarial pool and asmall apartment of her own. She mayeven have dreamed of a romance with
Clenaga de Zapata, a vast swa1 l1p thathe intended to convert to rice fields. Asaoon as he left Havana with his usualentouurage, Marie received orders to return to the Cuban capital immediately.She boarded a regular Cubana Airlinesfl.ght, posing as an American touristand carrying her Castro uniform and aloaded revolver in her overnight bag.
She arrived in Havana a few hoursafter Castro left town. Americans wereatill welcome there in those days, andCuban customs officers seldom searched
tourists' luggage.There was no trouble at the air
port, Marie said. I checked into aaleazy little hotel in downtown Havana,changed into my lieutenant's uniform
•nd went direct to the Havana Hilton.By this time, Castro had a home onthe outskirts of Havana, Casa Cojimar,but it was more convenient for him tokeep his papers at the Hilton.
He had Suite 2408 and the adjoining suites. I had the key to 2408.Nobody recognized me when I can1e
changed Into a d'ress ane;x:t flight to Miami.
Frank met me at thegave him all th t papers.exactly what informationed. I was told the stufwas fantastic, 'the Uniteernment is very happy.'
Among the papers wical maps of Cuba onsections of undevelopedaway from any populatibeen marked with handThe maps also had hantions that Marie couldn'
they were in a foreiCzech, I think.
Her ind Was Vilua le
Three years later, gence agent told her tthe original groundwo
Soviet missile sites. Thewere the spots where bases were built in 196the historic showdown
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daughter for protecting me , she did write a book, it
She said from her luxucy would be sizzling.apartment on East 88th Love letters from Cas-
S t ~ t . tro, she said, then perhaps,· POLICE GUARD realizing she might be break-
She made the statement ' ng orders to keep silent,While holed up with five de- fldded: "I _ c a n ; ~ talk. I can'ttectives, two of them armed $ay anythmg.with shotgu ns. Miss Lorenz, who has
The detectives have barred elaimed in the past that she
porter who hadapartment.
Meanwhile, Mscheduaed to fjury in connecallegations thaihr eatened her.
Police Commissioner Coddhas ordered a top-level Investigation to find out howand why two city detectivesgot involved in the bizarrearrest of Watergate burglarFrank Sturgis for allegedlythreatening former CIA spy
ported victim swear out acomplaint in court.
Only in cases w'here thereis serious injury or a witnessto the crime, do police actually make ail arrest.
The two cops had beenwith Miss Lorenz f'()r several
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Police Commissioner Coddported victim swear out acomplaint in court.
govemmenr reports strewn au over tne nwasn't there, and luckily for me, neithelatest mistress.
I wanted to blot out of mymind my mission of death,
but I couldn't. The last wordCIA agent (and later Watergate burglar) Frank Sturgistold me when he saw me offin Miami were: "If you don'tcome back, we're coming toget you."
Fidel could enter at anysecond. I didn't have much
F rom Hor. ld 51 ff Anri Wt r t Rf rWatergate burglar "rank Sturg1 :. wa::. ar
raigned in :-lew York City d a ~ on charges that he th r eatened a ,...-oman ,,·ho has ~ a i dhi' wa::, wi th Lee l lan·e, Oswald i n D a l l athrer d a ~ · s bl'fore President John Krnnedywas a::.sassinated.
Police said Sturgis had telephoned thrc:ns
to i\tamza Lorenz. a form er CIA and FBI i"o-formant who has t e ~ t i f i ( • p r r , · l l ~ tha t sht?accompanied Oswald. Sturgi:. and ot her:. toDallas No' . 19. 196:l. •
Sturgis. she said. lrltrodul ed her to
wald . and th ey studied maps of Dallas at amecting hc ld in M i a m i Little Ha, ·ana art?a
ST u RGIS li AS dPni<>d hr r accu:.allons. l ie
has J.aid he nc er mC'l Oswald. l ie abo den1ed
hemg in Dallas on the daysayi ng he was at horne in
Sturgis was jail ed af
Court ·Justice M il ton Sa$25,000. Sturgis' attorn
Hehrv Rothblatt. said hereduction today.
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from .. a psychoti c woma
in only one th ing - ~ e l lSu rgi s had ear lier said
him. begi nn ing in I 959.information about her l
Lore nz. he said. fed him min formation about t he Cub