WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (AP)—The U.S. embassy in Havana may have furnished U.S. expatriate Maj. William Morgan with a list of Cuban attorneys who could defend him on counter-revolutionary charges.
But State Department sources here said they had no knowledge that this actually had been done.
Rep. Thomas Ashley (D., Toledo), said he had contacted the State Department on what might be done to help Major Morgan, who renounced his U.S. citizenship to remain with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Mr. Ashley became interested in the case at the request of Major Morgan’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Morgan.
Department officers, he said, indicated that the embassy might be able to supply Major Morgan with a list of Cuban attorneys, but at that the department itself would have no grounds for actively intervening.
Mr. Ashley said he since has heard from Major Morgan’s mother asking that the department halt any assistance, since it might add in her son’s predicament.