Declassified CIA Documents Reveal Details of Bay of Pigs Invasion

[Ichingcarpenter]

Declassified, previously "top secret" CIA documents reveal that during the Bay of Pigs Invasion a CIA operative fired at a friendly pilot, reports the Associated Press. "We couldn’t tell them from the Castro planes," Grayston Lynch explains in the documents. "We ended up shooting at two or three of them. We hit some of them there because when they came at us…it was a silhouette, that was all you could see." That's one anecdote found in the four volumes of declassified internal CIA documents that the National Security Archive posted today. The reports, the result of a FOIA filed by the Archive last April, also reveal the following interesting details of the failed Castro overthrow.

Some high-level CIA officials thought it would be a good idea to get the Mafia involved.

A small group of high-level CIA officials sought to use part of the budget of the invasion to finance a collaboration with the Mafia to assassinate Castro.
Nixon's role as vice president under Eisenhower:

Vice-President Nixon, who portrayed himself in his memoirs as one of the original architects of the plan to overthrow Castro, proposed to the CIA that they support “goon squads and other direct action groups” inside and outside of Cuba. The Vice President repeatedly sought to interfere in the invasion planning.
The CIA knew all along it couldn't succeed.

In perhaps the most important revelation of the entire official history, the CIA task force in charge of the paramilitary assault did not believe it could succeed without becoming an open invasion supported by the U.S. military. On page 149 of Volume III, Pfeiffer quotes still-secret minutes of the Task Force meeting held on November 15, 1960, to prepare a briefing for the new President-elect, John F. Kennedy: “Our original concept is now seen to be unachievable in the face of the controls Castro has instituted,” the document states. “Our second concept (1,500-3000 man force to secure a beach with airstrip) is also now seen to be unachievable, except as a joint Agency/DOD action.”,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,more......... http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/08/declassified-cia-documents-reveal-details-bay-pigs-invasion/41299/

[Major Hogwash]

1. They wanted it go from a covert para-military op to an overt military op within 48 hours

And if Nixon would have won that election in 1960, you can bet your ass he would have sent in the Marines without any hesitation whatsover.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. The CIA mafia connection is confirmed by this

Which raises the questions on Dallas and the mayor of Dallas

[Major Hogwash]

6. Yes, I agree with those suspicions, too.

It is almost too convenient to look the other way and say we believe in the "magic bullet" theory, but we are still way too cynical now to believe in Poppa Bush stories about him not being in Dallas that day either.

[EFerrari]

3. So, they expected going in that the invasion would need support

and they expected Kennedy to cave?

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Dulles and his right hand man were fired after this

The right hand man's brother was the mayor of dallas
Sorry typing on my iTouch

[EFerrari]

5. Have you ever read American Tabloid?

It's a novel that traces a through line from the Bay of Pigs to November 22, by James Ellroy. It's the best work on this topic I've ever read in either fiction or non-fiction.