On assignment for U.P.I. in Cuba, he learned of the U.S.- backed effort to overthrow Fidel Castro and was imprisoned. He later worked for The New York Times.

Henry Raymont, an American journalist who was the first to report in 1961 that a U.S.-supported invasion of Cuba was underway at the Bay of Pigs, only to be immediately imprisoned by Fidel Castro’s forces and threatened with execution, died on Tuesday in Tepoztlan, Mexico, where he had long lived. He was 98.

His daughter, Sarah Raymont, said he died in his sleep at an assisted living home.

Mr. Raymont was a United Press International reporter on assignment in Havana when Cuban exiles came ashore in April 1961 at Bahía de Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs, on the island’s southwestern coast.

Theirs was a covert military operation intended to overthrow the Castro government, in power then for a little more than two years. The mission, financed