HOW REMARK LED AMERICAN TO THE STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400140003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 5, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE
MORMING 127,955
SUNDAY 188,329
MAR 5 1963
hail Remarks
led American
to the stogy
The mside story at tile roe
erican flyers played in
he ill-fated Cuba invasion of
961 was ferreted out by
HICAGO'S AMERICAN f 01-
wing a, rSlfi 'k by a Chi-
ago indus `ir a1lst.
The in ,}'list` told an
ditor of t newspaper that
friend, 0- erican Legion
ffic al In consin had
ldit a merican
enel~ ;' ave su-
lied ea i ss air
110 r re n from
e_ ir4f"0to was_ Living
A re o'ter was ass fined to
e ,story and located the
-GEN. G. R tD DOSTER
general-Ma . W.
Hutch, supervis g Qp-
erations in an oil field.
Asked about the part he
played in the Cuban invasion,
Gen. Hutchinson said:
"I was commander-of the
Ninth air force, but except
for being consulted as an
adviser on occasion,_,I had
no part in the Cuban opera-
tion."
Identifies Air Chief-
Then, signilicantl""'li e
added: ' -
"The In i- o wa t
MAR 5 1963
Ahabattie r .gugard' Fie was
in charge of-[acticali op-
erations. He'll talk to, you if pilots, Ruri~ `p~ssotlC _ He's
he can." ;right in
It rya the first time in all The report Y piit in a call
the millions of words of tlis- to Albert B. Persons, man-
cussion on the Bay of Pigs aging editor Qf ti]e Birming-
fiasco that an American gen- ham Examltter; a weekly
eraL had been specifically publication.
identified as "in charge" of ,;__ ,-+,_,
any portion of the operation.
The reporter immediately
called Gen. Doster - Brig.
Gen. G. Reid aI)oster - in
Birmingham.
G6eral Couldn't Comment
Gen. Doster said he could
Persons expressed amaze-
ment at the identification of
Gen. Doster as a key figure
in the Bay of Pigs operation
and said:
"This revelation, by an
obviously knowledgeable
not commeiit`on his alleged ',source [Gen. Hutchinson],
role in the Bay of Pigs opera- puts an entirely different
tion, but, asserted: , light on} the situation. I feel
"You might ._are to talk free now to detail facts that
to a man whii c Ris he was I hesitated to print before."
there - a newspaper editor Persons said he already
who says he was one of the had written one long article
FOIAb3b
ab*, the invasion, and the
part: a iean,Airmen played
in it, but that the new in-
formation would enable him
to write another, even more
revealing one.
He agreed to allo* CHI-
rAGO'S AMERICAN to' print
them.
CHICAGO'S AMERICAN in-
forme tie department
di CIA [cen-
tral intelligence agency] in
Washington of the allegations
made in Persons' stories,
plus the identification of Gen.
Doster as commander of tac-
tical air operations.
The DOS ,the CIA saidl
t h e_y ;}lg~ ,no .,comment to
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