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104-10119-10182 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/16/1970)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch39051 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 O1 9 018 2 - ,, 16 February 1970 MEPA NDUM FOR : Director of Security SUBJECT Comments on Manuscript Give Us This Day; CI and the Bay of Pigs Invasion by Edward J. Hamilton 1. This manuscript has evidently been kicking around in publishing circles since at least mid-1968, presumably without CIA clearance. William Buckley of the National Review seems to have been shopping it at one point. One publisher rejected it as.too controversial, and noted its confidential natare as well as its potential for libel suits. . In the foreword to this manuscript, the author (whom I shall .ito under his assumed name of Hamilton), describes the book as a 2,E;A~wa1 account of CIA's role in the Bay of Pigs affair in which he was Jil CIA participant for 19 months. He notes in the foreword his hope that someone would have written this book so that he would not have to do it; now convinced that, if he does not write it, it will never be written, he has taken up his pen reluctantly and in a mood of nostalgic bitterness. -Hamilton states that he has used no official files or documents and has Slted no one in preparing this ivork. Where true names are used in 'I `manuscript for CIA personnel, he writes that they have been publicly '1ltifled before, and in this ntention I believe that he is correct, with th iossible exception of The author's claim that this book would provide no information not known to Castro's intelligence service, or that details this late are of no value to the opposition,is, in my view, serioqsly open to question. 3. The book is, in generalfavorable to CIA actions in the Bay of The villains of the piece are certain liberal figures in the Kennedy inistration (Schlesinger, Goodwin, Stevenson) and to some extent, vresident himself. In his concluding chapter, the author's bitterness asundisguised against those in the Administration and the press who took the opportunity of the Bay of Pigs incident to attack and denigrate CIA. 4. Messrs. .Biss 11 and Barnes and the author's other CIA co- workers in the Caan Project, by and large, are given quite favorable tyeatment. One exception is General Cabel, whom the author excoriates, And it is appar-t that Hamilton's opinion of Jerry Droller is far from REURN TO CIA Background Use oy Do Not Reproduc/

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