Hunt, Howard. Give Us This Day. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1973.
235 pages.
E.Howard Hunt is one of the most infamous characters in the history of
the CIA. This book describes his participation in the planning of the Bay of
Pigs operation. Due to Hunt's command of Spanish and his experience in the
CIA-sponsored 1954 coup in Guatemala, he was assigned to the Miami Station
in 1960 under the alias of "Eduardo" as a political action officer. His main
task was to help anti-Castro exiles form a government-in-exile which would
be set up in Cuba shortly after they invaded. The plan was for Hunt and
"provisional government" leaders to fly to Cuba as soon as anti-Castro forces
had secured the airstrip at Playa de Cochinos. There they would broadcast
that a new government was in power and call for military assistance from the
U.S. The plan failed when anti-Castro forces were slowly destroyed by Cuban
artillery and ground forces. Hunt will remain one of the more important
figures in the history of the CIA. He shows up everywhere, from books on the
JFK assassination to books on Watergate.
-- Wendell Minnick
ISBN 0-87000-228-7
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