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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400140002-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP75-00149R000400140002-4
o my office and
and, about a
ins B-26 pilots could,
ve "so they might
6W& not- comme)-it
on.
d a y night said the
ur`i' o n a 1 guard pilots
t r-" `Alabama, Arkansas
end irginia "were offered
,#,. month by the QP11
?
" Doster said they'd
bce h^ed by the CIA (Cen-
hr41 Iat11igence Agency)."
l1'ive of the Alabama guards
lien were k ill e d in one
operation, Hutchison said.
Alabaman in Charge 'No qualified m 1 1i t a r y
Gen. Doster told him "in commander would think of
detail" about the Bay of Pigs sending out unarmed B-26s
iz yasion,_ __G e n. _.Hutchison as air cover ~ where there
said. The A I a b a m a Air `were jet fighter intercep-
Guard chief was to."super-Mors-and we had reasons-'
vise the air part of tb e inva- ble cause to believe the
sign operations." JCubans had jet fighters," he
"They had plenty of air said.
force down there, U,_ e'd Gen. Hutchis, . aid one U.
been permitted to use it," fS,fighter could' have covered
Hutchison said, the B-26s so they could have
He said, Gen. Doster. took bombed tanks which, eventu-
"a good number of pilots- (ally, caused the defeat of,
about a doze n"-down to invasion forces.
Guatemala for., training. Five Men Killed
"I want, to point ouh" he "When Gen. Doster got'
said, "the. regular air force J back, he saw me first before
had nothing to do with this he talked to anybody,
operation, whatsoever. Hutchison said.
`On Civilian St'atus' "He was heart-broken,
"Gen. Doster and his. m en Five of his men had been
took leave of absence on a illed, and all of their efforts
civilian status," Gen. Hutch-
ison said,
One American air force
fighter could have saved the
entire invasion, he added. He
said the U. S. learned in
World War II and again in
Korea that "no invasion can
be successful without ade-
quate air cover..
Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIA-RDP75-00149R000400140002-4
MAR 8 1963