CARTER TRAVELING TO CUBA ON PERSONAL BUSINESS? READ THE FACTS AND DECIDE!!!

AP | 5/12/02 | Luis Gonzalez

[Luis Gonzalez]

ATLANTA (AP) - James E. "Chip" Carter III, the son of former President Jimmy Carter, announced Monday he will lead a delegation of citizen ambassadors to Iran in May.

Carter, 48, is vice president for International Development with The Friendship Force, a worldwide nonprofit group based in Atlanta. President Carter, whose term in office was blemished by the Iranian hostage crisis, announced the founding of the group in 1977.

Since then, the Friendship Force has dispatched more than 500,000 citizen ambassadors in 3,600 volunteer clubs in 48 U.S. states and 60 nations.

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[piasa]

I figure he won't find anything, but Castro will use the opportunity to discredit a certain defector.

How big is carter's entourage, I wonder? And how many press people are tagging along?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I don't know the size of his group.

Cuban President Fidel Castro, center right, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter are seen at the Revolution Palace Sunday, May 12, 2002. Carter is the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution that put Castro in power. (AP Photo/Jose Goita)