Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

For decades, the CIA's top secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion has been the holy grail of historians, students, and survivors of the failed invasion of Cuba. But the scathing internal report on the worst foreign policy debacle of the Kennedy administration, written by the CIA's then–inspector general Lyman Kirkpatrick, has remained tightly guarded—until now.

Dislodged from the government through the Freedom of Information Act, here is an uncompromising look at high offic...