BAY OF PIGS----STORY BEHIND THE STORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100250025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 9, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

N;W YORK
OURNAL. AMERICAN
Sanitized - Appioved For Release : CIA-
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CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
FOIAb3b
Tess and TV reaction over It appears plain that what
he weekend." the joint Chiefs of Staff did
3ilice ..ail. Semoza is obvl- not know about the operation
ashy to air.; the truth as he i the three authors did not try
ces it, that leaves but two to find out. N=or did they later.)
onclusions to be drag';h: exchange b a s i c information
Either he was deceived all one another.
on g about the operations Each writes as if, from his
Ian, or our three oracles, [or
Orvll narrow track.'lhe could
reasons of their own, have get the whole of it.
omitted mention of the MIA- The two White House men
In ,tile clld, there were oi1lY both believe that. the ope
doomed from the
rya
ti
on
s
Ii bomber sorties out of 45 a
beginning by too much wish-
soacduled. fu. thinking. Mr. Bissell con-
; SST.J .EO T W CIA 'ends that his plan missed
" took assurances from the sueccess by a narrow marlin,
wrong actinic--C A agents." which means that he remem-
Mr. Somoza, said. "Ithouah.t bars rleinly how three Castro
they spoke for your govern- planes blew up his expedition,
?ment. 'boa had carriers off 1 and forgets that he didn't
our coast covering the buildttip ! have e oil^h strength anY-
at Puerto Cabeza s. I aslk.ed'. where to afford him much of
?ti'ill they be prei)arcd to sup'- a chance anyhow.
port the invasion i.i'an elncr- 1
1. TYII. 1Tt1T, i;I ti^iT4
By BRIG. GEN. S. L. A. Mf:>i'?SF:ALL
CPYRGHT Alilitary Affairs Analyst
F .l wive to The Journal?American
;HAT ABSURDITY of recent times-Me o ,
-has been getting a great going-over this Sum
pier.
Not much of value has
b e e n gained, except 111.
royalties to the' authors of
the latest three revelations.
The truth about the Bay of
Pigs stays bottled UP, if In-
PRESIDENT SOAM
So call another witness.
Here is what President Luis
Somoza of Nicaragua told
me on Feb. 2, 1962.
"I was the coordinator from
staged through here. I feel I
am as responsible for the
failure as was President
iennedy.
"My mistake was that I
did not stop the expedition
when I Know it was going
fatally Wrong ..: I are not a,
technician of war but I know
enough to see when techni-
cians are going astray.
"On Thursday before the
curtaim %vent up I got a call
from CIA, tx;~ashin,-ton. I was
told ~1F'o tie moving up the
first two strikes 24 hours,
They go Saturday instead of
Sunday'
"I object& vehemently fo-
I knew the change spelle
surprise. The air strikes, an
the landing would be 48 hour
deed the bottle has not been JIVANTE t TO CANCEI
busted and its bits flushed +'g ?rid -0 Call Lilo WI1it
into Chesapeake Bay by the ousu but CodId riot ;e
official custodians. through. I'or a time I though
One curious thing Is that of cancelling the show o
all three authors discuss the, my owu, but i1x Cap end
first two strikes by the B-26s agreed to send the strikes o1
a,s if they were carried'. Thet' why I Led guilty.
out exactly as planned, with "About why the ohs no
no mention of a last-minute ryas made, I was never ' tol
disarrangement, to Which 1 My assumption is that it wa
llation or tetlnrct
z
ubl
niz~ ~n~~
~
~
cance
strliw became a, w,,a e t& r b
i,cc uer ce..
.. ,.y L.l u JL1 -UL.
ger cy?' File answer was
`CertainlyI'
In all three chronicles, the t
cancellrtiev of the t h i r d
i .S, r.airiers 1r?ould intervene, strike by orde or the 4lsite
it tMM,S went wrong, ; ous Ps 1C-ex:=lnillcd erltia'
'?I misled them because silly, ll.r, `3issall cads it the
bat! been tnisied." fat l blow. The others say it
xT 'E v KO1 EA was inconseruential - that
the try was already irretricv"
There Was a time when ably lost.
this government felt the peo- '~Ir Bissau 5,1.73 outright
pie had a right to arts ail, that the exiles were told flat-
and not Just the parts that ly there vinuld be no U.S.
are good for them. But that ;tltervetriion, at v;hic'r1 iolnt
old-fashioned idea died short-
I s'le, uisa grrees with Mr. Soren-
ly after Xorca.
sang rrho asserts just as po1,'?-
vo full and responsible ac- I Lively that "lie. high hopes 0f
cat rims followed the Day the exile ai'lsacie were pinned
of Pits. There is no system oo the promise of direct U.S.
zo.- such c.-elations in Viet support.
Nam and no one seems to ;t1 thcac, conirac icaions, ,
W.nt
p'.us the Sn111oza interview
Tire c i1 r r e n t chronicles under score the main rues
about t e Bay of rigs shows Lion: rocs the nation any
how history becomes cheated ion: cr get drpendable rotor-
as :. result. Inaiier1 on its most important
The authors, Dr. Artlrar and if not, as :t free
M. Schlesinger Jr., historian; ~?? people, do we have a decent
Theodore C. Sorensen, suss- Claim on survival".
from the Los Anceies Times-
cral counsel to the Bate I $es- ` ua t,in,lon robe News SCLYICA
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