FIVE YANKS DIED TRAINING CUBANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400140012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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C u nal. inforrned hint of the 1-n).,Uer ~uf nyi[ utes."
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able cause. to hejievn
can pilot said thttltletl
was proposed fora fake attai:k
on the U.S. naval ba\:v
taninlo to give our tolCes' iif
CACI_I.(~ !~) cutel the Iitghting:.1'
-I don't think It was taken
scriorisis'," said Albert C
l'cr%ons, 47, a Birmingham,
1 fa., ++eckly nc\vsittaper dI=
Washington a. suggestion for
a vlav to sale thiti'tblntg (the
inv,isiun). Iit ~batcser;. fU-
Ihorns, I don?t know.
Pev-ons, a World` 'W'ar
Hier. ,aid let w'as rt'Clulted for x! S v
+:i, In Ni ?ilnlgua ork in zt`h n 1Ger9: T'er.ons, former
air .trik? 11;aunst C'uh ?wheo,l'resdlalt f '.s i'lit D. Eisen-
I-carn,' ?I;4 iou. ' th+ thing liavucr' P1 flil,u.~ a i d e. con-
1,td f a i i c n completely to icridcci. lire imtrsi,?n vNould_havc
tincce', Ycl it.l'teinler Fidel Cis-
t Ihat p,a:nt, Person, saiJiro hadn't I}een, given time to
?n17 Of the Aniericattpilot 5ug- il)tsstct bis'forces after the first
,.t.',l that t4w or thrcc pla.ncs, air strike.,
i caaly painted with Ile,'
,saId he believed some-
ill IS .i)i,S fly to GHill Tanal.o, otty"dcalled a 48-hour delay
I'd ,trafo: runways or nther an the fhvasionA'(ter the first
c, II-n5 of the base. 'B a fiat `tnr ,*Ike on + 'uban targets
flndltlii, Per.uns sail,,. ha.{. i er-
onncl would be renovzd to
alcty h,aorc the staged.attack
"T11is was it very cyslica art)
rciac?h ,u the prriblcni, huh t
it .is the rest of the w It s4'rzc
thick was on April 18, the
day 'afte'r tic invasion.
':fbe effect of this 48 hours
Sc it`;,hlriously .to give Castro
t k its atxk I)i troops and
c ~tWfor rn my