The Nation - News from Jan. 30, 1985

Fugitive financier Robert L. Vesco is smuggling high technology computer and communications equipment to Cuba, Nicaragua and East Bloc countries in exchange for sanctuary in Cuba, NBC News said. “In the 12 years on the run, Robert Vesco has gone from Wall Street millionaire to alleged master swindler, drug smuggler and suspected Soviet Bloc agent, now highly valued for his ability to open up new routes for the smuggling of American high technology,” the report said. It added that Cuba has given Vesco sanctuary on the island of Cayo Largo and, in return, “Vesco has gone to work for the Cubans as an agent.”