About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

104-10324-10000 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (04/07/1998)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78928 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1032410000 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
w  =                    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 lessons. 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

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most