Puerto Barrios place
also: Porto Barrios
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Pat Robertson carried_out_attack
Puerto Barrios documented
“to blow up trains carrying the equipment. Robertson led the teams despite orders that no Americans were to be involved. The saboteurs laid explosives on railroad tracks, but the detonators, thanks to rain, didn't work. The CIA team then sho…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 10 @ 40:59
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▶ 40:29
led to the first military action of the project. Headquarters ordered a sabotage. CIA paramilitary man Rip Robertson wanted to go into Puerto Barrios with frogmen to sink the Swedish ship with explosives. Washington said no. Instead, Robert…
▶ 46:46
while several boatloads of men made for the Caribbean port of Porto Barrios. Both places, plus Guatemala City, would be bombed by the CIA. But no popular uprising appeared. Castillo Armas did not march even the few miles to Zacapa. Another …
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of approximately 600 men. All now depended on Whiting Willauer's Rebel Air Force. It had run a number of bombing and leaflet missions since the first day of the invasion. A raid that caused some damage to Porto Barrios involved a hand grena…
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disappointed by the orders to desist, ordered up one of the fighter bombers. 15 minutes out of base, the plane found the spring Freud and hit her with a 500-pound bomb. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and the ship sank slowly enough for the c…
▶ 46:55
Bissell cabled Egan on his own authority, permitting the use of CIA pilots, but not any of the Cuban exiles, supposedly, and recalls no evidence the troops were ever used. But President Eisenhower was later briefed that the Cubans deployed …