INTERVIEW WITH SAM HALPERN BY BRIAN LATELL AND MICHAEL WARNER

"10 G6666_____ , 104-10324-10000 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 « r 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"