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Article: Behind the Debacle at the Bay of Pigs.(narrative of Cuban trained for 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- March 8, 1999
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CUBA, APRIL 17, 1961: In the runup to the attempted overthrow of Castro at the Bay of Pigs, the U.S. trained Jose Basulto.
I went back into cuba in february 1961, two months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. I was only 20 years old, but I had trained with U.S. agents for more than a year in communications and intelligence. My cover was as a physics student, so I enrolled and took classes at the university in Santiago de Cuba. I didn't study much, though, because I was helping organize the urban underground and having daily communications with the CIA ... On April 17, 1961, I received a top- priority message that U.S. warplanes were bombarding the Cuban oilfields ...