CIA to Display Painting Honoring Bay of Pigs Invasion

[LeighAnn]

Source: CBS-4 Miami/Ft. Lauderdale

Veterans of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion will be honored with a painting set for display at the CIA headquarters in Viriginia.

The painting will be unveiled today at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama. It will eventually be on display for visitors to the CIA building in Langley, Virginia. The CIA has a new art gallery to show artwork that honors the secret agents who worked for the agency and its predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services.

Read more: http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_291091517.html

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A couple more paragraphs. No mention of the cost of all this, or the point.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That's the equivalent of Ford's HQ hanging a painting of the Edsel.

[NYC]

3. Great analogy.

It wasn't one of their more stunning successes.

Taxpayer dollars for this?

[tanyev]

2. I wonder if Poppy and his two ships will be in the painting?

[Eric J in MN]

5. two ships? NT

NT

[tanyev]

6. The Barbara J and the Houston, owned by Bush's company, Zapata Oil.

Bay of Pigs

The CIA codename for the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 was "Operation Zapata". (See Beschloss, p.89). Through his work with Zapata Off-Shore, Bush is alleged to have come into contact with Felix Rodriguez, Barry Seal, Porter Goss, and E. Howard Hunt, around the time of the Bay of Pigs operation.<6> John Loftus writes: "Zapata provided commercial supplies for one of Dulles’ most notorious operations: the Bay of Pigs invasion."<7>

CIA liaison officer Col. L. (Leroy) Fletcher Prouty alleges in his book, The Secret Team (1973) and on his website, that Zapata Off-Shore provided or was used as cover for two of the ships used in the Bay of Pigs invasion: the Barbara J and Houston. Prouty claims he delivered two ships to an inactive Naval Base near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, for a CIA contact named George Bush, who re-named the boats.<8>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation

[bobthedrummer]

4. For some reason all I want to do is repost an Octafish thread in reaction to this "news"

(started by Octafish September 24, 2006)
"Know your BFEE: Los Amigos de Bush"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2214484

[annabanana]

7. You'd think they'd want people to forget this misadventure..

Why are they doing this?

[Maribelle]

9. Perhaps we should look more closely at the Cubans in Miami involvement in the 2000 elections.

With all the pandering these terrorists received since 2000, there is truly something fishy in Biscayne Bay.
:tinfoilhat:

[Maribelle]

8. The chickens that fled Cuba will be honored by the corrupt right.

All the while the corrupt right mocks us for wanting to remember Woodstock.

[High Plains]

10. Honoring illegal invasions of the past. How sweet.

[otherlander]

11. "Congratulations. You lost."

[MetaTrope]

12. When do we get a painting showing the first Abu Ghraib "extreme interrogation"?

Maybe in watercolors...

[Cronopio]

13. In the style of Edvard Munch, certainly. Or Francis Bacon.

With a dash of Jackson Pollack on the floor.