'BAY OF PIGS' SEQUEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100160025-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: May 15, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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r !1r~in e;_:despite a weak Heart,.
nn- South America to enlist support
' ue1 ate.. a common campaign against Cas-
'~ Pigs tro.. This week's raid m iy have been
CPYRGHT
identification of Dr, Manuel Artim one of the first, small fruits of his mis-
a the leader of the hit-run raid thi ?o and his travels indicate it may
Ii~ive been based elsewhere than in
w;, ek on Cuban port facilities and the United States. Other leaders of
sugar mill marks the skirmish as T3ri ode 2506 - Erneido Oliva and
part of a long-range plan by Cuba Pepe San Roman - have enlisted in
exiles to redeem the humiliation of t17 ihr U.S. Army, as have nearly .half
Bay of Pigs and liberate their islan tii;r members of the Brigade, including
fr`;Qm Fidel Castro and the Comm rnr=.?ny who had been seriously wound-
nlsts. Dr. Artime was the eivilia c'u at the Bay of Pigs.
leader of the exiles' Brigade 250 Of utmost importance to the Amer!-
which was chewed up in the fiasc can people is the understanding that
oi:;April, 1961. He and more than 1,00 trice' United States is inextricably
of,'. his comrades, who spent nearl linked to the aspirations of the re-
t,.Yo years in Cuban jails before thei sip, ing Cuban exiles, who were three
r ram by the United States hay y:firs ago - as the Johnson book so
sworn to dedicate their lives to a a r cferirly reveals'- let down so discs-
turn to a free Cuba. trinusly by the United States at several
''he members of Brigade 2506 hav h~''els of authority.
c ,nfounded the psychologists sine One need not accept at face value
it return to exile in this count all-of the grave Johnson and Artime
A`,study of their reactions to impriso ac usations - secret Central Intelli-
rrient, conducted by the Bureau of cnce Agency plans to countermand
c%al' Science Research in Washington White House decisions, a suicidal bat-
as a part of a continuing exan t.X;.plan approved by the U.S. Joint
itsaiion of ex-prisoners of Red re Chiefs of Staff, failure to redeem re-
gnes, has labeled them as "unique.' Peated pledges of U.S. air cover for
Te bureau has reported it found i the invaders -- to be convinced that
4merica has a tremendous moral ob-
ry
unga
o
ban exiles often re er
They do not know what their futur [oien' Bay 'ay of 'analysis Pigs, of and events,` from the 'Mr. Admin John-,
h~ilds, but they are determined the, jistration in Washington could learn a
are not going to live a lifetime of ex apt from Dr. Artime and his confed-
ilc, in the manner .of the White Rus Orate. in the way Fidel Castro should
11 sians and the Hungarians. Each ! be confronted and impressed by an
waiting to return to Cuba." mplacable will to free Cuba. It will.
dot be accomplished by hope alone.
n-i-resistance.to esprit, organization verse, or t e cause o r. ime an
cad active resistance." those who follow. him must be the
ri. extraordinary report on Brigad cause of the entire hemisphere. How
2 06, "The Bay of Pigs" (Norton), b it is to be pursued must, of course, be
Hynes Johnson, scheduled for publi _ matter for decisions at the highest
levels of American government, act-
cation next Monday, reflects the de
termination -of Dr. Artime and' hi frog in the interests of all Americans.
eciunter-revolutionists. The latter should have, but are lack-
"Their spirit of resistance remain iu'rg, assurance that. these decisions are,?
nd will be made at the levels re-'
a a strong as ever," writes Mr. John nsive to the people, not by the
s . ; a respected newspaperman Wh ,p?
gents of a. secret organization, like
has spent a year interviewing Dr., Al
'di'ne and other leaders and member e CIA, or, for that matter,, by Dr.,
ofd the, brigade. "Today, in .their me However, from what one can learn?
rants of despair and bitterness, the
f rom developments, from the history of
t
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. the of despair, demoralization, an 'J11C wvulu ""t, W""t, ia? "' "? """~-
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