CIA · From: WALTER PFORZHEIMER · To: DIRECTOR OF SECURITY · JFK43 : F18B : 1997.07.02.08:25:10:780106 : · Release: Redact
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"4-00000 [104-10119-10182] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ! I €' 16 February 1970 MEMORANDUM FOR Director of Security SUBJECT Comments on Manuscript Give Us This Day; CIA 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" nature as well as its potential for libel suits. G-, 2. In the foreword to this manuscript, the author (whom I shall referto under his assumed name of Hamilton), describes the book as a "personal account" of CIA's role in the Bay of Pigs affair in which he was a senfor-CIA participant for 19 months. He note • 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.' •9 Hamilton states that he has used"
"… RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ! I €' 16 February 1970 MEMORANDUM FOR Director of Security SUBJECT Comments on Manuscript Give Us This Day; CIA and the Bay of Pigs Invasion by Edward J. Hamilton 1. This manuscript has evidently been kicking around in publishing circles since at …"