Volume 2, Number 11 · July 9, 1964
Unfair Play for Cuba
By Ernst Halperin
The Bay of Pigs
by Haynes Johnson
Norton, 368 pp., $5.95
Mr. Haynes Johnson's The Bay of Pigs is the story of 'Brigade 2506,' the CIA-trained task force of Cuban exiles which was sacrificed in April 1961 in a futile attempt to invade the island and overthrow the Castro regime. The book is based on extensive interviews with four leaders of the Brigade: Manuel Artime, who had been hand-picked by the CIA as the political leader of the venture, José San Roman, the Brigade's military commander, Erneido Oliva, his second-in-command, and Enrique Ruiz-Williams, an artillery officer. Mr. Johnson also interviewed numerous other members of the Brigade and managed to obtain highly interesting inside information from Washington sources which, in his own words, 'cannot be revealed, but…are irrefutable.'
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