Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs

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Summary: Betrayal of a Brigade.
Review: An exceptional portray of actual events, which led to the betrayal of extraordinary, patriotic, and courageous men. Lynch's unmasking of "Kennedy's Camelot" reveals heart-wrenching facts, which continue to stir emotions among Brigade 2506 veterans. This book is clear, concise and above all...Factual! "Decision for Disaster" is a sanctuary for readers and historians seeking the truth about the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

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Summary: Finally, the cover-up unmasked!
Review: As a Cuban, I always knew that the U.S. governments theories on the failed invasion were a total and complete cover-up. After reading this book, it shows how correct I was. This book takes you through the story of the doomed 2506 Brigade from the training in Nicaragua to the desprate search for survivors. The book is written by one of the two American CIA agents sent with the Brigade to maintain communications between the Brigade and Washington. The book is devided into three main parts. The first part describes Castros Revolution, the planning for the attack, and the training of the Brigade. The second part describes the actual attacks on the two landing sites, Blue Beach and Red Beach.The final part of the book compares the government explinations for the faliure against what really happend, showing how the Kennedy administration betrayed not only the doomed men of the Brigade, but the American people, for had the Brigad succeded, there would have been no Cuban Missle Crisis, no civil wars in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Colombia, and the Soviet threat would have been eliminated much earlier. I would recomend this book to anyone willing to learn how their government is betraying them.

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Summary: Gray Lynch helps to tell the truth about the Bay of Pigs.
Review: I read this book with an insider's knowledge based upon the 18 years it took my family and I to recover my father's remains, which laid frozen in a Havana morgue, hidden by Washington and the Kennedy Administration. My father, Thomas "Pete" Ray was one of the American CIA B-26 pilots who gave his life attempting to save the "Bay of Pigs" invasion. My thanks go to Grayston Lynch for telling the true and compelling story of how Jack and Robert Kennedy betrayed so many in the planning and execution of the invasion, then falsely placed the blame for failure on the CIA and the brave men who actually went into harm's way. Washington even went so far as to terrorize the families of the four lost CIA pilots into silence. This book should be required reading for any politician or senior military officer before they are allowed to commit men or women to combat or covert operations.

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Summary: my uncle grease
Review: its a masterpiece. but anything gray says you can take it to the bank. absolutely marvelous

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Summary: A Must Read for Everyone!
Review: This book is definitely an eye opener. I remember as a child my father telling me of the cover-ups and distortions created by the Kennedy administration. The real truth about what happened at the Bay of Pigs is finally out. JFK's mistake caused untold missery to millions of people. Not just Cubans, but also Nicaraguans, Guatemalans, Colombians, and now Venezuelans. Cubans, and Americans as a whole, should be extemely grateful to Mr. Grayston Lynch for writing this book. I know I am. Thank you, thank you Mr. Lynch.

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Summary: A Must Read for Everyone!
Review: This book is definitely an eye opener. I remember as a child my father telling me of the cover-ups and distortions created by the Kennedy administration. The real truth about what happened at the Bay of Pigs is finally out. JFK's mistake caused untold missery to millions of people. Not just Cubans, but also Nicaraguans, Guatemalans, Colombians, and now Venezuelans. Cubans, and Americans as a whole, should be extemely grateful to Mr. Grayston Lynch for writing this book. I know I am. Thank you, thank you Mr. Lynch.

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: This book is honestly one of the best political books that I have read to date. Well written, never wanted to put the book down!

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Summary: An Interesting Perspective
Review: This is a very revealing story about the fabled "Bay of Pigs" invasion that is so often called a failure. Grayston Lynch, one of two CIA agents on the beaches with Brigade 2506, tells the story from the ground up and makes a compelling case that the Brigade did not fail, but they were betrayed by an indifferent President John Kennedy and his Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Although I personally wished that Lynch had shared more information about other CIA figures who were involved with the "Bay of Pigs" invasion, he nonetheless clearly reveals the frustration, anger, and bitterness shared by those CIA operatives who lived through a betrayal from Washington. I'm looking forward to Lynch's follow-up book on his years following the failed invasion as part of the CIA's Miami JM/Wave Operation. Too many adults today do not understand the debt owed the warriors of WWII who devoted a life fighting communism. This book helps set the record straight.

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Summary: It finally comes out
Review: This is the story that should have been told long ago. However, as usual our country prefers to lie to its people and the world to save embarrassment. Grayston Lynch gives us the truth, from first hand experience. I have spoken to many of the men that were there on that doomed invasion. I have read numerous books on this subject from others that were there and some that were not. However, Mr. Lynch is the only one that I am aware of that was not only there, but was privy as to the decisions that were made in Washington, why they were made and by whom they were made. It's almost incomprehensible that the original plan designed by true warriors, that was as close to perfect as could be would be changed so dramatically by someone that had absolutely no clue as to what he (they) were doing. (Not incomprehensible to me since I too have had first hand experience with people like these.) It's actually down right scary! This is the one to read on this subject. Grayston Lynch is a true American. Thank you my friend, for risking your life for us, the Cubans and for risking your life for us the Americans. Most of all, thank you for telling the truth!!