ALONGTHEMALECÓN: Activists seek classified Bay of Pigs report

For nearly six years, researchers have been trying to force the CIA to release its secret history of the failed Bay of Pigs operation.
Now, finally, the CIA may be poised to release a “substantial” amount of the documents, court records show.
The National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute in Washington, D.C., sued the CIA in April over its refusal to release a report entitled, “Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation.”
Former CIA Chief Historian Jack B. Pfeiffer wrote the five-volume report over nine years, from 1974 to 1983. The Archive said:
It is based on dozens of interviews with key operatives and officials and a review of hundreds of CIA documents. …It is, by definition, the most important and substantive CIA-produced study of this episode.