Name: Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret cia Report on the Invasion of Cuba (National Security Archive Documents)
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Author: Kornbluh, Peter
ISBN: 9781565844940

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Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret cia Report on the Invasion of Cuba (National Security Archive Documents)

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Peter Kornbluh

Publisher

The New Press,

Author

Kornbluh, Peter

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

339

Format

Paperback

Weight

1.10

ISBN

9781565844940

ISBN13

9781565844940

Edition No.

Synopsis "Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret cia Report on the Invasion of Cuba (National Security Archive Documents) "

For decades, the CIA's top secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion has been the holy grail of historians, students, and survivors of the failed invasion of Cuba. But the scathing internal report on the worst foreign policy debacle of the Kennedy administration, written by the CIA's then-inspector general Lyman Kirkpatrick, has remained tightly guarded--until now.Dislodged from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, here is an uncompromising look at high officials' arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence, as displayed in their attitude toward Castro's revolution and toward the Cuban exiles the CIA had organized to invade the island. Including the complete report and a wealth of supplementary materials, Bay of Pigs Declassified provides a fascinating picture of the operation and of the secret world of the espionage establishment, with stories of plots, counterplots, and intra-agency power struggles worthy of a Le Carré novel.Includes: the complete text of the CIA report; a critical introduction; the newly declassified response to the report from Richard Bissell, who masterminded the operation; the first joint interview with the managers of the invasion, Jacob Esterline and Colonel Jack Hawkins; a comprehensive chronology; and biographies of the key participants.

Peter Kornbluh

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Peter Kornbluh led the campaign for the declassification of official documents on the secret history of American support for the Pinochet dictatorship and currently heads the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He is the author of numerous research works.

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