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Televised press conference with Anastas Mikoyan and his Soviet translator, held the day before the announcement of a historic, new trade agreement between the Soviet Union and Cuba. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101 and 102.

Fidel Castro's televised presentation on the merits of the new $100,000,000 trade deal signed with the Soviet Union earlier that week. Fidel is shown before the maps and charts that he brought along to illustrate the advantages the Soviets offered Cuba. The name of the television program was Ante la prensa. See also Prints 103, 104, 105.

Based on St. George's own submission notes enclosed in this file, these images show the Minoffs at the casino at the Hotel Caprí, entirely deserted of all tourists, which is located on the famous street called La Rampa that connects the central area surrounding the University of Havana to the Malecón, or sea wall. The only people sitting in the casino besides the Minoffs and the dealer are two off-duty showgirls from the nightclub at El Caprí and what he calls a "b-girl," or free-lance and high-class prostitute. Other images in the prints show a group of foreigners lounging alongside the pool at the Hotel Nacional. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.

René Vallejo, apparently providing an interview to Jay Mallin, a reporter accompanying St. George. Vallejo was the director of the Instituto for Agrarian Reform for the province of Oriente. Film submission sheet enclosed with the contact sheet states that Mallin used the interview in an article he dispatched to unidentified source and that Andrew St. George was working for Magnum Photos, Inc.

This print includes St. George's film submission sheet identifying images as having been taken en route and while visiting the state-owned cooperative Veinte Rosas, Oriente Province, at the behest of INRA (Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria) in December 1959. The top row depicts travel through rough terrain in a jeep and the crossing of a flooded road. Remaining images show rural workers dressed in shabby clothes as they consume a meal at long, cafeteria-style wooden tables.

The cooperative "Camilo Cienfuegos," taken at Christmas 1959, shortly after the government announced its decision to cancel payment of traditional Christmas bonuses to sugar workers. Instead, the government offered to sponsor collective Christmas dinners for workers in plantation cafeterias by providing four million dollars in credits for financing. St. George's film submission note, enclosed in this folder, confirms the circumstances of these images. Taken from the backseat of a government jeep, the top row of frames shows an INRA official sitting low in the seat while speaking to an agitated peasant. The driver relaxes his arm along the back of the seat. According to St. George's note, these frames show a "typical" encounter in which a local peasant approaches the jeep and complains directly to the official about conditions on the cooperative with the expectation that his problems might be solved in the "personalistic" fashion reminiscent of the days when peasants similarly complained to the patron (capitalist owner of the plantation).

According to St. George's enclosed submission sheet, the images show Cuban government soldiers and stevedores loading a Soviet cargo vessel docked in Santiago's harbor, Oriente Province, with sacks of sugar bound for the Soviet Union. St. George, along with Mallin, was probably not authorized to take these pictures, and may have used a proxy photographer as he refers to the pictures as "sneak shots" and apologizes for their quality.

Continuation (on two sheets) of casino shots shown in Print 10. Also includes more images of the Minoffs enjoying the spectacle of Carnival on El Prado (see also Prints 1 and 7) while uniformed members of the national revolutionary police look on. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.

Continuation of casino shots shown in Prints 10 and 11. Also included is Mrs. Phyllis Minoff in the swimming pool at the Hotel Caprí, again entirely deserted of all tourists. See also Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41, 42 and 94.

Contains one full sheet and two torn strips. Images of Jean Paul Sartre, his wife and equally prominent intellectual, Simone de Beauvoir, and several unidentified men talking and lounging poolside at the Hotel Nacional. Sitting on the floor at de Beauvoir's feet is Robert Taber, CBS News correspondent and previous collaborator with St. George for stories on Raúl Castro's guerrilla column in the Sierra Maestra in July 1958. Also included at the bottom of the full sheet and on a partial strip are images of the Minoffs shopping for souvenirs on El Prado, downtown Havana, at night. For more on the Minoffs, see Prints 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37, 41 and 42.; for more on the Sartre and de Beauvoir visit, see Prints 10, 14, 16, 18, 19 and Book VIII.