To my knowledge, apart from the three of us, Mr. Du's family, while having their meal, lost six of its eight members, burned by bombs.
NEW FACTS REVEALED ABOUT U.S. INVASION OF CUBA IN 1961
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) S.L.A. Marshall, a military affairs analyst, whose column is syndicated by the Times/Post Service, recently revealed fresh details about the CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba in 1962.
The information was given him, he says, by the late Luis Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua whom Gen. Marshall found to be a "warm, congenial man." Somoza asked Marshall to see him on February 2, 1962. The American military analyst reports Somoza's words as follows:
"I am as responsible for that disaster as is your President Kennedy. I mean I share the burden of guilt with hin. He made the main mistakes. My blunder is that I did not turn the whole thing off when I knew that we were going fatally wrong. I had the power. You see, I was coordinator from this end; the show was being staged from our soil. I am not a technician of war. But I know enough to see when technicians are either lacking or mistaken.
"During the time when we were building up to it, I took assurances from the wrong people -- your people -- CIA agents encharged to deal with me. I thought that on operational matters, they spoke for your Government. You had carriers off our coast, covering what we were doing. When I asked: 'Will they be prepared to support the invasion in an emergency?' I was told: 'Certainly.' And I believed it. I did not realize that this was not the White House speaking.
"I was in on the scheme from the beginning. There was need of a base from where we could stage the air strikes against Cuba in secret. You know Puerto Cabezas (population 500) on our east coast, having been there. That was the nerve center. I went to the people there 70 days before the show. I said: ‘Here is our chance to do something for democracy in America, but you will have to make
sacrifices.' They were willing. So for two months they were cut off from the world; no mail or freight moved in or out. No one could leave; security guards saw to that. One pregnant woman had to see a specialist in Managua. I sent him to her in my plane; that's how careful we were. We