The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [513]
483 “I can’t remember …”: LL interview with Harris Wofford. 483 Dulles told the men: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
483 an accomplished man who had come: TOB, p. 427.
483-84 “for practical purposes…”: McGeorge Bundy, memorandum of discussion on Cuba, January 28, 1961, in Mark J. White, The Kennedys and Cuba: The Declassified Documentary History (1999), p. 15. Wherever possible, more readily accessible sources than the files at the JFKPL will be cited. When otherwise not noted, the FRUS documents are from the Kennedy administration Cuban documents found on the State Department’s estimable web site at www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusX/index.html.
484 from the original $4.4 million: “Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation October 1961,” in Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba, edited by Peter Kornbluh (1998), p. 58.
484 Kennedy had met: Clark Clifford, memorandum, January 24, 1961, Department of State, Rusk files: Lot 72 D 192, White House correspondence, 1/61-11/63, FRUS.
484 “continuing civil war”: Central Intelligence Agency, memorandum, Washington, D.C., January 26, 1961, CIA, DDO/DDP files, job 78-01450R, box 5, area activity—Cuba (top secret), drafted by Bissell for a presidential briefing, FRUS.
484-85 “My belief from …”: LL interview with Colonel Jack Hawkins.
485 “the way [would] then …”: Colonel J. Hawkins, “memorandum for: Chief, WH/4, “Subject: Policy Decisions Required for Conduct of Strike Operations Against Government of Cuba,” January 4, 1961, enclosure in Colonel J. Hawkins, “Clandestine Services History: Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government of Cuba, 17 March 1960-May 1961.” www.geocities.com.
485 “our presently planned …”: Washington, D.C., January 22, 1961, 10:00 A.M., Department of State, INR/IL historical files, Cuba Program, January 21, 1961, FRUS, author emphasis.
485 “final planning…”: Central Intelligence Agency, memorandum for the record, Washington, D.C., January 28, 1961, DDO/DDP files, C. T. Barnes Chrono, January-July 1961, author’s emphasis.
485 “You don’t even know …”: Lord Harlech, KLOH.
485 “They were a strange …”: Robert Amory, KLOH.
486 Out of the sixty-nine thousand: Kornbluh, p. 77.
486 These errors were: In his “Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government of Cuba, 17 March 1960-May 1961,” Colonel Hawkins writes: “These operations were not successful. Of 27 missions attempted only 4 achieved desired results. The Cuban pilots demonstrated early that they did not have the required capabilities for this kind of operation.”
486 “not more than …”: Colonel J. Hawkins, “Anti-Castro Resistance in Cuba: Actual and Potential, March 16, 1961,” www.geocities.com/Capitol Hill.
486 “at least ten times …”: ibid., enclosure.
486 “nearly 7,000 insurgents”: CIA, “Cuban Operation, Document, April 12, 1961,” reprinted in Kornbluh, p. 131.
486 CIA Director Allen Dulles: TOB, p. 431, and LL interviews with Burton Hersh and Samuel Halpern.
486 “I was never …”: Robert Amory, KLOH.
486 done for security reasons: Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America (1988), p. 176.
487 Nor did the one hundred thousand: Juan Carlos Rodriguez, The Bay of Pigs and the CIA (1999), p. 18.
487 When the CIA’s operatives: These CIA figures are for the period from October 1960 to April 15, 1961. Hawkins, “Anti-Castro Resistance …,” p. 9.
487 “prompt free elections…”: NSC action memorandum 31, Washington, D.C., March 11, 1961, reprinted in Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined, edited by James G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh (1998), p. 226.
487 “the risk is too …”: President’s Special Assistant (Schlesinger) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1961, NSC files, countries series, Cuba, general, 1/61-4/61, JFKPL. See also Blight and Kornbluh, p. 222.
487 “Castro has been able …”: memorandum of conference with President Kennedy, January 25, 1961,