The war that never was: An insider’s account of CIA covert operations against Cuba

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Employees of the CIA have never been allowed to publish uncensored accounts of their activities. But Bradley Earl Ayers used to be never in the CIA. As a Regular Army officer, he used to be attached to the CIA on orders, and as a result used to be never required to sign a secrecy agreement. This is Captain Ayers’s account of his top secret assignment to the CIA, training anti- Castro guerrilla fighters at hidden bases in the Caribbean and leading them on raids into Cuba. Ayers tells how he used to be chosen by the Pentagon in 1963 for his background in commando operations, then turned over to the CIA for indoctrination as an undercover operative. Ayers describes the chaotic condition of the CIA Cuban paramilitary training effort and tells of the steps that were taken to reorganize and revitalize the program. He found the men he used to be training highly dedicated but totally inexperienced. Under almost intolerable physical conditions, and with inadequate equipment and inferior weapons, they conducted raids against specific targets in Cuba, working from secret bases in the Florida Everglades and the Bahamas. Ayers accompanied them. There were speeding boats in the darkness, clandestine rendezvous on the high seas and in steaming subtropic jungles. And there used to be violent death. In the long run, he became emotionally involved in the reason for the Cuban “freedom fighters.” But after the assassination of President Kennedy, the program started to lose impetus. An increasing number of, Washington favored a policy of neutrality in Cuban affairs. War of words with this new passivity, and loyalty to the original ideas on which the mission used to be based, forced Ayers to succeed in a radical decision: to leave the CIA mission and resign from the Army. That he did so is a measure of his profound disillusionment with official policy and a testament to his singular and abiding loyalty. With Cuba back in the headlines today this book is especially timely, affording the reader a historical viewpoint not to be had anywhere else.

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