WIDOWS DISPUTE STORY ON BAY OF PIGS FATALITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100650012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Content Type: NSPR

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Wjdows Dispute Story
Fatalities:
- (alai airmen failed to return fr1i)6 'invasion of Cul
' 7heso..men 'iew What .t my were letting Intti,
attorney Atetc Brlson,who rted t e dls~tpMaran' to
the wives '~fr .was a Calculated
risk If their Caine back they invasion
of the Bay of
a nice, nest egg" Mr. Carlson arrived later#tob1.
The women each Bret 22 Miami Springs In , behalf of., an
every two weeks-=oapparent'iq,organization known at the
1 tax free-from an unknown Double Check Corp.
benefactor. But. they ,insist Mr. Carlson at this time'told
ti money alone 'ivee hot their them their husbands might be
'husband's motives. ." alive and urged them to mgain-
'My husband was no soldier' lain, secxeey He and Mr.'Mc-
of -,fortune or adventurer"'said , Dowell later informed them the
Mrs. Thomas' Willard..Ray in' men were dead and said the
an interview with Nashville story was being released to
Tennessean Reporter . Wayne, newspapers.
Whitt. ? Mr. Carlson told newsmen in
Interviewed Widows May, 1961. the men went down
Mr. Whitt also . talked withl In a C-46 cargo plane while on
Mrs. Wade C. Gray aztd Mrs. a flight to an unknown desti-
Alley W. Shltmburger, jr., the nation with an unknown cargo
other two widows ,Who Jive in and that wreckage had been
the Birmingham ? area, a sighted.
,!f urth widow, Mra He said Double Check .had'
1x.,o5 Angeles with her father they were the only. ones eon-
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In Washing a. an otficiai ganiaation ? as ' is kind : of
of the Central Intelligence broker. :.,The'-': organtaati0n:
.9ency dedllfted _goMment on Double Cheek reprMlited hid.
116 widows`' ret>Siarl a ann r.. requEsted chat, its 140nutr " l
worked for the ;`agency: The' f y ~' fix!
Official iV1+ali' N..~ .i: A;, t__ wiaawa~ ,
Ceive comps; }tl;theu~' taker; they did not hsVo to pay
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said he was going to a Dom.- then it would help things a
blued officers' trainin
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Said Mrs. Gray;
Two months later they were - The men had similar back.
retested dead-by accidental'. grounds, All had- been aaso-
drowning, I elated with Hayes Interns.
At first the wives were told, tional Corp., a F~rmin a~1
,on Apthat ril their hud it dir ( re -
._ April 19, the da a of a pone,If ,f
Mrs. Wade C. Giir'~e ; widow of one of four.
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