[cia-drugs] CIA history of the Bay of Pigs

norgesen Tue, 23 Aug 2005 06:15:26 -0700

A CIA HISTORY OF THE BAY OF PIGS

An internal CIA history of the Bay of Pigs has found its way
into the public domain as one of the beneficent effects of
the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act.

Most internal CIA histories are routinely withheld from
disclosure, regardless of their age. But apparently because
the Bay of Pigs history touched on the question of
assassination policy, it was caught up in the broad sweep of
the JFK Act and declassified.

The document was located at the National Archives by Prof.
David Barrett of Villanova University, who copied the 295
page volume and posted it on his web site.

See "The Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation, volume
III: Evolution of CIA's Anti-Castro Policies, 1951-January
1961":

http://www14.homepage.villanova.edu/david.barrett/bop.html

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During the 1970s, CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer wrote a Top Secret multi-volume history of 1961s Bay of Pigs intervention in Cuba. Before his death, Pfeiffer sued unsuccessfully to de-classify some of the History. Though it is widely believed that all volumes are still classified, one is available at National Archives JFK Assassination Records Collection. Pfeiffer writes of incompetence at CIA, of an out-of-touch Allen Dulles, of too-close relations between CIA and anti-Castro U.S. corporate leaders, and about The Question of Assassination.

Click below for PDF files with the Introduction and Chapters 1 through 8. (Endnotes and Appendices are not posted here, but are available with the History in Box 1 of the CIA Miscellaneous sub-collection.)

Foreword
Chapter 1-1
Chapter 1-2
Chapter 2-1
Chapter 2-2
Chapter 2-3
Chapter 2-4
Chapter 2-5
Chapter 2-6
Chapter 3
Chapter 4-1
Chapter 4-2
Chapter 5-1
Chapter 5-2
Chapter 6-1
Chapter 6-2
Chapter 7
Chapter 8