BAY OF PIGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170123-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: March 8, 1963
• Content Type: OPEN

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as I express now, my sympathy to the meat, $205 a month up to the time that Dorn In the past been the wonder bolt
widows and children of the four Ameri- the child reaches 18 years of age. With Harold the Republican Party. I overen tb
cans who were killed in that ill-fated in- two children, the widow would receive Minnesota, and served s t oz
cident. $225 from our Government. When her denrtial o, nomination othen n of t sought that at the pI'Ok Grand Reference has been made in this children reach 18-and presumably they Party, of f
aal which I am not embe
Chamber today, to that invasion, and have by this time-the payment of the which hold in the s member,
reference has also been made to It by pension to the widow, If she has not re- later whiI occupied in the c edeedi n ngly hi y higot. pod.
the former Vice President of the United married, would revert to $164. tion in t an excgh pion
States, Mr. Nixon. I should like to make I stated yesterda that some of the , , the Eisenhower
call. I lle a he ran o
some supplementary remarks on this widows of our men in World War II, who the Finally, citFinally, council Incil l in In P, hiladdelph believe a ran for
same subject. left their comfortable homes and loved Pia and was
defeate&
It is exceedingly unfortunate that any ones and made the ultimate sacrifice for Mr. President, men were killed in that abor- their country, and who today are re- this new Mr. news Item, charged that P
iMr. Nixon, at Presid to
tive Invasion. It is a matter of great ceiving $164 a month, must be somewhat Kennedy ublundered by failing resident
regret that four fine American young surprised to read in the papers that the air covblundered by fto provide
men had the misfortune to be shot down. widows of these four unfortunate pilots air coder for the invasion that could
p have toppled, , a, says, the Fidel Castro
The facts are that all of the four were who were killed at the Bay of Pigs In.. regime, and, he e says, former president mature
men.
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been and a former World War II a test
a month April vex 1981 are receiving $467 Eisenhower would never have made that
pilot. pert to receive that mistake.
was 37 years of age. His name was Riley amount as long as they remain un- The fact is that in 1960, when General
W. Shamburger, Jr. It is stated that he married. Eisenhower was President of the United
received $2,100 per month while he was I make these remarks only to show States, and this California Stasden_ Mr,
training Cubans as aviators preliminary what our Government has done and Nixon, was Vice President of the United
to the invasion, presumably in Nicar- what is being done-I do not know for States, the Castro regime suddenly. and
agua and Guatemala. sure by whom. It may be the Central without warning, seized the property of
The second man referred to in the Intelligence Agency or an organization American citizens in Cuba; seized, for
news item was, Thomas Ray, I find, of Cuban freedom fighters, many of instance, millions of dollars of the prop-
30 years of age at the time, and had whom are sons of men of wealth. in Cuba erty of American corporations which
just returned from military duty. Evi- who were dispossessed. Presumably it is were lawfully in Cuba.
dently he was not employed at the time not from that source. I have no knowl- Fidel Castro made no pretext then?
he enrolled at $1,900 a month to train edge on the subject, but my view is that and has made no pretext since, of giv-
Cuba third, Wade C. Gray, was unem- it m y that the Central Intelligence ing any pent whatever to corpora.
The making the payments. tions owned by American stockholders.
ployed at the time he was hired. He That leads me to the conclusion that or to American individuals when he de-
had been a radio and electronics tech- it would be an excellent idea for the spoiled them of their propertie&
nician. He was 33 years of age. Congress to legislate and select a joint Was there a peep out of the Vice
The fourth man, Lee F. Baker, was 35 watchdog committee to keep the CIA President at that time about a quaran.
years of age. He operated a pizza estab- under observation and see that the ex- tine against Cuba? Was there an utter.
lishment, and also had worked as a penditures of the organization are prop- ance from the then President of the
pilot. erly made. Sometimes, when agencies United States about invading Cuba?
So, Mr. President, they were mature of our Government have ample funds to Firm action would have been justified.
men. They were either recruited, or spend. some of the officials may not al- Vice President Nixon did not utter one
offered their services; one at $2,100 a ways be zealous in the interest of saving yelp, one cry of protest at that time.
month and the others at $1,900 a month. taxpayers' money. My belief Is that our Now he is talking big. He wants to be
Their recruitment was for the purpose Central Intelligence Agency is over a War Hawk in 1963, but he was ex.
of training Cuban exiles. Their re- staffed and is spending too much of the tremelysilent in 1959 and 1960, when
cruitment was not for the purpose of taxpayers' money. Frankly, I could not the then administration and Its leaders
combat duty. Evidently In the excite- prove that. No Member of Congress also had a real grievance against Cas-
ment of the moment at the time of the could. This Is another reason why tro's Cuba.
invasion, realizing there was a need for there should be a joint committee of I support the firm, determined, res-
trained pilots, they voluntarily took over Congress to act as watchdog, and to keep olute, and unyielding policy toward
the controls of two planes. Unfortu- the expenditures and operations of the Cuba of our Commander In Chief, the
nately, both of them were shot down,- CIA under constant scrutiny. President of the United States. I am
Since that time there have been Frankly, Mr. President, I have sup- proud of the fact that his policy caused
statements back and forth regarding ported appropriations for the defense of Khrushchev to turn tail last October
these men. Let us accept the state- our country, which Includes tremendous and to withdraw the aggressive missiles
ments of the unfortunate widows, the sums for the CIA. I am fearful that and the aggressive planes _froom that
mothers of their children, that their hus- having available such huge funds and little island.
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