- Jacob Esterline
Jacob Donald 'Jake' Esterline (
April 26 ,1920 –October 16 ,1999 ) was aCIA specialist in guerrilla warfare. During theBay of Pigs invasion he was chief of Western Hemisphere Branch 4, reported to DDPRichard Bissell andTracy Barnes , rather than to the Western Hemisphere chief,J.C. King . [https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98_99/art08.html]Esterline and Marine Col. Jack Hawkins (also CIA) both strongly thought that the impending invasion should be called off because last-minute changes in the plan would guarantee disaster, and wanted to resign. [http://karws.gso.uri.edu/Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/le5397.htm] Bissell convinced them to stay onboad.
Esterline died inHendersonville, North Carolina .External sources
* [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/ GWU National Security Archives] on Bay of Pigs invasion.
* [http://cuban-exile.com Cuban Information Archives] .
* [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/ Bay of Pigs documents] and 40th anniversary conference papers, GWU National Security Archives.
* [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/esterlineinterv.pdf GWU Transcript of Interview with Esterline]
* [https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98_99/art08.html CIA's Internal Probe] of Bay of Pigs.
* [http://www.watsoninstitute.org/cuba/ Watson Institute conference]ee also
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Operation 40
*Bay of Pigs invasion
*E. Howard Hunt
*David Atlee Phillips
*Felix Rodriguez
*Richard Bissell
*Frank Sturgis
*Guillermo Hernández-Cartaya
*Porter Goss
*Barry Seal
*Zapata Corporation
*Watergate scandal
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