Customer Review: This is an excellent and much needed book. Gray Lynch courageaously takes on the JFK apologists and lays it all out so folks can see what really happened at the Bay of Pigs. His front-line service with the Brigade during the invasion gives the account credibility. As a CIA operative attached to the... more info
Customer Review: A fascinating post-mortem on the Bay of Pigs operation and all the more so because it was done internally by the CIA Inspector General. Suppressed for three decades because of its remarkably blunt honesty this book will have you shaking your head. A perfect example of why the 'best and the... more info
Customer Review: The writer gives a blow by blow discription of what happened to cause the Bay of Pigs disaster. Allen Dulles was on a roll, having just used the CIA to take over Guatamala, and install a government we liked there. Ike had never signed off the the Cuban plan, but let it continue. Kennedy came... more info
Customer Review: This book was a great and informative book about the Bay of Pigs invasion. One point that I thought was especially interesting was in the different people who helped make this book possible. At a conference held in 1996 where panelists discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion, men from the US, Cuba, and... more info
Customer Review: Under Cover, or Out of Control? The New York Times November 29, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition (Review of 2 books, including, Covert Action: The CIA and the Limits of American Intervention in the Postwar World, only this book review included here) The torrent of revelations about the... more info
Customer Review: An enjoyable read! This book is a must if you are interested in the 1954 CIA sponsored coup in Guatemala. Stephen Rabe rounds out the history from a clear U.S. Foreign Policy perspective, and adds depth to the history of this time. This book should be read along side Bitter Fruit and Shattered Hope... more info
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