History from the documents. Every claim traced to a declassified file S1: Bay of Pigs https://xitter.cf/t.co/fKBEWTDl93 Also on Spotify & Apple Podcasts
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"If unfriendly aircraft is shot down every effort shall be made to hide the fact that such action has occurred."
Joint Staff rules of engagement for the U.S. Navy off the Bay of Pigs. Washington, 17 April 1961, 3:35 p.m.
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Three questions the record leaves open. The documents don’t resolve them. xitter.cf/FromTheFile/status/210…
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Three locked doors. No institutional verdict on why the Bay of Pigs failed. xitter.cf/FromTheFile/status/210…
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"Refs received and reluctantly complied with. Complete plan amendment per refs received 170715Z with all pilots in cockpit ready for start engines."
CIA air base, Nicaragua, 17 April 1961, after the D-Day air strikes were cancelled.
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"If this is not done, we will be courting disaster." Col. Jack Hawkins, the CIA's paramilitary chief for Cuba, 4 January 1961.
By March, a Joint Chiefs team put the odds against achieving surprise at "about 85 to 15."
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Twenty copies printed. Nineteen destroyed. The last sat in the Director’s safe nearly 37 years.
AP names no author; VOA says McCone. Both stand. xitter.cf/FromTheFile/status/210…
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“The DCI called me in to ask my recommendation on what action should be taken to cope with the Cuban disaster.” — Kirkpatrick diary, 22 Apr 1961. xitter.cf/FromTheFile/status/210…
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