CIA staff historian Jack Pfeiffer wrote the fifth volume of the agency's internal Bay of Pigs history between 1979 and 1984, but his superiors rejected the draft for 'serious shortcomings in scholarship,' a 'polemical tone,' and failure to add significantly to understanding the controversy.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent sources including CIA's own declassified reading room documents and FAS/AHA analyses of the draft history controversy. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Spy vs. Spy: The Bay of Pigs and the Battle for the Soul of the CIA (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/C01254908.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/bay-pigs-release (corroboration)
- https://fas.org/publication/cia-bop-draft/ (corroboration)
- https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2014/cias-draft-history-of-the-bay-of-pigs (corroboration)