CIA Sued For "Holding History Hostage" On Bay Of Pigs Invasion

[bobthedrummer]

by Peter Kornbluh (4-14-11 The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 341)
Fifty years after the failed CIA-led assault on Cuba, the National Security Archive today filed a FOIA lawsuit to compel the Agency to release its "Official History of the Bay of Pigs Invasion"...

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB341/index.htm

Ever wonder what President NIXON was really referencing when he kept repeating something about "the Bay of Pigs thing..." to the various operatives he criminally employed when going after his "enemies" here in The United States of America?

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Bay of Pigs? Is that like a Tea Party gathering at the beach?

[bobthedrummer]

2. I don't confuse the baying of pigs like Hitler, Beck, Palin, Walker with the Bay of Pigs n/t

[SecularMotion]

3. Dana, is that you?

"Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and she didn't know what it was."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/09/AR2007120901336.html

:crazy:

[Warren DeMontague]

4. I see they have a picture of the "Houston". But no picture of the "Barbara", which was also part of

Operation "Zapata"..

[Old and In the Way]

6. A curious omission indeed.

And isn't that a pic of a former CEO for Zapata Oil?

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I'm not usually one for the tin foil headgear

but there's some really weird shit around the BOP.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Maybe the CIA has a vested interest in covering E. Howard Hunt's roles in

the Bay of Pigs and the Kennedy assassination? Hunt was supposedly retired from the CIA when he became Nixon's "special assistant" for illegal break ins and wiretaps.
http://mtracy9.tripod.com/kennedy.html

Several reports over the years have placed Hunt in Dallas at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In 1974, the Rockefeller Commission concluded that Hunt used eleven hours of sick leave from the CIA in the two-week period preceding the assassination. Later, eyewitness Marita Lorenz testified under oath that she saw Hunt pay off an assassination team in Dallas the night before Kennedy's murder. (Hunt v. Liberty Lobby; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida; 1985) Click to read transcript

In taped conversations with Haldeman, Nixon is obviously worried about what would happen if Hunt's involvement in the Watergate conspiracy came to light. Nixon says, "Of course, this Hunt, that will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab, there's a hell of a lot of things, and we feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further ... the President's belief is that this is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again." Click to Listen: Nixon instructs Haldeman on what to tell the CIA (text below)

NIXON: When you get in to see these people, say: "Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that..." ah, I mean, without going into the details of, of lying to them to the extent to say that there is no involvement. But, you can say, "This is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre," without getting into it, "The President's belief is that this is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again. And, ah because ah these people are playing for, for keeps and that they should call the FBI in and we feel that ... that we wish for the country, don't go any further into this case, period!"

Following instructions, Haldeman informed CIA Director Richard Helms of Nixon's concern that the Watergate investigation would "open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again." Haldeman gives this account of what transpired next:

"Turmoil in the room. Helms, gripping the arms of his chair, leaning forward and shouting, 'The Bay of Pigs had nothing to do with this. I have no concern about the Bay of Pigs.'

"Silence. I just sat there. I was absolutely shocked by Helms' violent reaction. Again I wondered, what was such dynamite in the Bay of Pigs story?"

Eleven days after Hunt's arrest for the Watergate burglary, L. Patrick Gray, acting FBI Director, was called to the White House and told by Nixon aide John Ehrlichman to "deep six" written files taken from Hunt's personal safe. The FBI Director was told that the files were "political dynamite and clearly should not see the light of day." Gray responded by taking the material home and burning it in his fireplace. John Dean, council to the president, acted similarly by shredding Hunt's operational diary.


And what a coincidence that Dick Nixon would be in Dallas the day before the Kennedy assassination, meeting with some reactionary right wingers...

[bobthedrummer]

8. ^