Bay of Pigs
Declassified:
The Secret CIA Report will be published in September 1998 by the
New
Press and the National Security Archive. Includes the full text of the
report, the first joint interview with the managers of the invasion (Jacob
Esterline and Jack Hawkins), a comprehensive chronology and biographies of
the key participants.
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Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government of Cuba
17 March 1960 - May 1961
The National Security Archive has made the secret after-action report by Col. Jack Hawkins, the paramilitary chief of the Bay of Pigs
Invasion,
available for downloading below in Adobe PDF format. The report is in two files, hawkins1.pdf (5 MB) and hawkins2.pdf (3MB). The files
contain the scanned images of the pages of the report.
hawkins1.pdf (5 MB)
hawkins2.pdf (3 MB)
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For further information about the report contact:
The National Security Archive,
The Gelman Library, George Washington University
2130 H Street, NW, Suite 701, Washington, DC 20037
Phone: 202-994-7000 / Fax: 202-994-7005
Internet: nsarchiv@gwu.edu