Albert Persons

Albert Cobb "Buck" Persons (born August 21, 1915 in Guilford, Connecticut; died March 18, 1996 in Birmingham) was an aviator involved in the failed 1961 CIA-backed "Bay of Pigs" mission to support Cuban forces attempting to overthrow the nation's Communist government.

Persons divulged the role of US pilots, and the leadership of G. Reid Doster in planning and carrying out the secret mission, first in the pages of his The Examiner newspaper, and later in a privately-published book entitled Bay of Pigs.

Persons was the son of William Ernest Persons and Anne Lawrence Cobb-Persons of Connecticut.

References

• "Author, Bay of Pigs veteran Albert "Buck" Persons dies." (March 21, 1996) The Birmingham News

External links

• Albert Cobb Persons at Findagrave.com