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MIAMI — Newly declassified U.S. documents show a CIA operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The B-26 bombers flown by the Cuban exiles were disguised to look like Cuban military planes, but the ruse worked too well, the documents indicated. It was not clear, though, whether anyone was hurt. The documents also show that U.S. officials authorized limited use of napalm on military targets and to protect the invasion’s beachhead area.
