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Article: Unanswered questions of the Bay of Pigs invasion.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- April 20, 1997
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MIAMI _ Sooner or later, the secrets come out.
Ramon Conte, the man who served the longest in Cuban prison after the Bay of Pigs invasion 36 years ago Thursday, is methodically uncovering them. He is the ``keeper of the secrets'' for the Cuban exile army.
What do declassified CIA documents and the testimony of former CIA operatives who kept mum for decades reveal to him? The answers to the eternal questions of the Cuban exile, he says.
What led to defeat on that beach in Cuba, the deaths of 104 men, the imprisonment of more than 1,000 and the loss of their homeland to Fidel Castro? What happened in the White House and corridors of the ...