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104-10324-10000 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/7/1998)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch47782 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10324-10000 , -SECRET HALPERN, SAM Interview by Brian Latell, Michael Warner 7 APRIL 1998 MW: This is the interview with Sam Halpern, done by Brian Latell and Michael Warner in the spaces of the Center for the Study of Intelligence on the 7th of April, 1998. BL:. Sam, you told me that you read recently the IG report on the Bay of Pigs. SH: I did, and the responses.... BL: Which were recently declassified by the Agency, and you told me that.you had never seen it before, and that had you seen it when you were running Operation Mongoose you would have learned some critical l'ssons. You said that it-was a shame that you had not seen it. SH: That's right. Neither did Bissell; I mean, neither did Harvey and neither did Ted Shackley. Harvey's dead so I couldn't ask him, but I asked Ted the other day whether he had ever seen the report, and he said no he had never seen it and nobody had ever talked to him about it. So here you have the man in charge of a new Cuban Bay of Pigs SIC Operation, although we weren't going to send in 1,000 troops. And you have the guy in charge of the whole thing, Bill Harvey, and of course the DDP himself, Dick Helms. Helms by that time .... When we were doing Mongoose, none of the three people, none of the three senior people ever saw the damn thing. I think McCone was wrong not to let those three people, at least those three people, see the thing, because the sections dealing with the organization and management of the whole Bay of Pigs Operation had lessons for what we were doing in Mongoose, and we were running the same kind of operation in terms of trying to overthrow a foreign government. BL: What, in particular, would you have done differently? What specifically, what lesson specifically applied to Mongoose? 1 SECRET

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