"Records show errors by Bay of Pigs unit" August 16, 2011|Associated Press
MIAMI - Newly declassified US documents show a CIA operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The B-26 bombers flown by the Cuban exiles were disguised to look like Cuban military planes, but the ruse worked too well, the documents indicated....
The documents also show US officials authorized limited use of napalm on military targets and to protect the invasion’s beachhead area....
Chemical warfare is okay as long as we do it, 'murkn.
In the report, two US pilots described dropping bombs and napalm on Cuban troops....
Initially, officials hesitated to use napalm because it “would cause concern and public outcry,’’ the documents indicated. But by the second day of fighting, that notion “had gone by the board in favor of anything that might reverse the situation in Cuba in favor of the [exile] Brigade forces.’’
The invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles was a pivotal moment in US-Cuba relations and has become something of a “what not to do’’ case study in US covert actions.
And don't say you are going dismantle the CIA and smash it into a million pieces.
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