Operation Zapata: The "Ultrasensitive" Report and Testimony of the Board of Inquiry on the Bay of Pigs. Frederick MD: University Publications of America, 1984. 367 pages.

Two books in NameBase, "Operation Zapata" and Peter Wyden's "Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story," deal with the 1961 CIA invasion of Cuba that was inherited by President Kennedy as soon as he took office. This was the first embarrassment for a CIA that had come to think of itself as all- powerful. Hundreds of CIA-trained Cubans and dozens of CIA officials blamed Kennedy after he failed to involve U.S. forces to salvage a deteriorating situation. Some of the crucial events in U.S. history since 1961 can be traced back to the Bay of Pigs, and to Kennedy's subsequent desire to rein in the CIA.

"Operation Zapata" presents the declassified portions of the twenty meetings held by the Taylor Commission to investigate what went wrong. Top CIA, military, and national security officials testified, as well as some Cubans who participated in the invasion. Some names are deleted, and the material is fairly esoteric except to those who have studied the actual invasion. But it remains valuable as an unimpeachable historical reference.
ISBN 0-89093-377-4

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