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Subject:      Re: Bay of Pigs Report Released
From:         diegbet@aol.com (Diegbet)
Date:         1998/02/22
Message-ID:   <19980222222001.RAA28471@ladder02.news.aol.com>


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This led the President to make another decision, which
made disaster absolutely certain. I was in the CIA
operations room at about 10 P.M. on April 16, three hours
before the troops were to commence landing, when Mr.
Esterline hurried in with an ashen face and told me that the
President had canceled the second attack on Castro's air
force, the one scheduled for first light the next morning.
Appalled, I rushed to the telephone and called Mr. Bissell,
who was at the State Department, and urged him in the
strongest terms to call the President and explain that the
invasion force faced certain destruction unless the order
was reversed. I predicted that our troop transports would
be under air attack and some or all would be sunk.

After my plea, Mr. Bissell and General C. P. Cabell, the
Deputy Director of the CIA, spoke to Mr. Rusk. He
telephoned the President, who had left Washington, and
told him that the CIA wanted to reinstate the air strike that
he believed the decision should be changed. McGeorge
Bundy, the National Security Advisor, seconded Rusk's
advice. The cancellation remained in effect.

This final incredible mistake doomed Brigade 2506. The
President himself had initially approved the original
operation plan, which provided for forty B-26 sorties in
preliminary air strikes. After his last-minute cuts, only
eight sorties were flown, a reduction of 80 per cent.

While Washington floundered, the troops of Brigade 2506
landed successfully in darkness. But when morning came,
Castro's fighters and bombers attacked, and they continued
to attack all day. Unloading supp
CubaNet Org.
diegbet@aol.com
Ellos Corearon: LIBERTAD!!! LIBERTAD!!! LIBERTAD!!!
And he knows THE END IS NEAR


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