(From National Security Archieves): CIA Releases Controversial Bay of Pigs History
FROM ARTICLE REGARDING RELEASE OF SECRET CIA REPORT
2016 Change in FOI Law Overturns Agency Stonewalling
CIA fought release for years, claimed draft would “confuse the public”
National Security Archive FOIA case prompted Congress’s 25-year sunsett
Washington, D.C. October 31, 2016 - The CIA today released the long-contested Volume V of its official history of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which it had successfully concealed until now by claiming that it was a “draft” and could be withheld from the public under the FOIA’s "deliberative process" privilege. The National Security Archive fought the agency for years in court to release the historically significant volume, only to have the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2014 uphold the CIA’s overly-broad interpretation of the "deliberative process" privilege. Special credit for today’s release goes to the champions of the 2016 FOIA amendments, which set a 25-year sunset for the exemption: Senators John Cornyn, Patrick Leahy, and Chuck Grassley, and Representatives Jason Chaffetz, Elijah Cummings, and Darrell Issa.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB564-CIA-Releases-Controversial-Bay...
END OF ARTICLE REGARDING RELEASE OF SECRET CIA REPORT
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Haven't read much basically because I know it will require full attention and probably tranquilizers (which unfortunately I have none). And report that starts off like this is bound to be ugly. But look at the names of the people responsible for its release. That's pretty interesting in itself.
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Anyway, here's the first paragraph Introduction to the actual report.
Chapter 1
Introduction
Even as the search for survivors of the failed invasion at
Playa Giron was underway, two investigations of the causes for the
failure at the Bay of Pigs were being authorized" One investigation
was called for by President Kennedy and was directed by General
Maxwell Taylor. The Cuban Study Group (CSG), as Taylor's committee
was known, conducted its investigations and presented its findings
to the President within a period of roughly two months (20 April-13
June 1961). By the end of 1961, the general tenor of the committee's
findings were public knowledge, and, as noted in the preceding
volume in this series,* by the early 1980's, the bulk of the Taylor
report, including the testimony of witnesses who appeared before the
committee had been declassified for public release.**
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Comments
Oh, man, I need to read this.
But not now...
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Best read when you can focus on what it says, when it's
quiet and you have time to reflect on the fact that you're reading history that our government tried to keep from us for decades.
EDIT: I don't know if its me or Autocorrect, but one of us is an idiot.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Exactly.
And I will. Thanks for posting it.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
"The Fidel Castro Tapes"
http://www.pbs.org/program/fidel-castro-tapes/
I highly recommend watching this PBS documentary. I am old enough that I remember the unrelenting vilification of Castro and I remember both the Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis. We ducked-and-covered in elementary school. It was terrifying.
But watching the documentary now, with the knowledge of actual U.S. history and the imperialist aggression and intervention into other countries' affairs, the whole thing looks so different. Basically, Castro and his followers wouldn't bow to the U.S. corporations, rejected the previous regime (propped up by the U.S.), and then the U.S. did everything possible to bankrupt Cuba, marginalize it, overthrow its government, and starve it technologically and in terms of food and medicine.
We have been the aggressors all over the world. I'm really fed up and I keep saying "Not in my name."
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Nailed it.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X