 Howard F. Anderson moved his wife and, at the time, his only child to Cuba in 1947, where he ran a small string of family-owned gas stations, factories and a Jeep distributorship.After Fidel Castro took power of the Cuban government in 1959 anti-American sentiment began to grow as the political climate became increasingly volatile.Charged with smuggling arms into Cuba, Howard Anderson was taken into custody by Cuban military forces in March 1961.