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The B-26 Invader did useful service in World War 2 and then was a stalwart of operations in Korea. Jet aircraft then replaced it in mainstream US service. But that did not mark the end of the Invader's career. It found a new employer: the CIA, who used it extensively. This video covers the little known operations in Indonesia and the rather more contraversial intervention in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Major Sources Scott Thompson’s “Douglas A-26 and B-26 Invader” is the best all round source on the Invader in my view and has some good information on Cuba and Indonesia Frederick A Johnsen’s “Douglas A-26 Invader”, Volume 22 of the WarbirdTech Series is also excellent Dan Hagedorn and Leif Hellström’s “Foreign Invaders: The Douglas Invader in foreign military and US clandestine service” is very comprehensive but some of it has now been superseded by later research