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Article: CIA BLAMED ITSELF IN '61 FOR BAY OF PIGS FAILURE.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 22, 1998
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Byline: Craig Nelson Associated Press
NEW YORK -- One of the Cold War's most secret documents - the CIA's scathing internal investigation into the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle - is finally out, and there is little wonder why the spy agency has guarded it so jealously.
The 150-page report, released after sitting in the CIA director's safe for more than three decades, blamed the disastrous attempt to oust Fidel Castro not on President Kennedy's failure to call in air strikes, but on the agency itself.
The CIA's ignorance and incompetence, as well at its arrogance toward the 1,400 Cuban exiles it trained and equipped to mount the invasion, were ...