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ROLE IN THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION According to information in a book of famous investigate reporter Seymour M. Hersh '' The Dark Side Of Camelot '' during early preparations to the Bay Of Pigs Invasion , President Eisenhower personally asked then- Governor Of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson (who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II ) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama (Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard) by Cuba n emigree's to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua . Patterson agreed and then-commander, Major General George R. Doster was ordered to oversee all operation. NOTABLE PERSONNEL EXTERNAL LINKS |
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