Agreed, the Bay of Pigs operations was based on many dangerous assumptions. The United States assumed that the Cuban people would support the rebel resistance, based on second-hand information. The reality was the majority of the Cuban population supported Fidel Castro and his social policies. Further, President Kennedy had assumed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained rebel forces would retreat to the mountainous region of Cuba and continue to fight if the operation began to fall apart. In contrast, the CIA had assumed that the President and his administration would commit forces to back up the rebels if required (Warner n.d., 94). The miscommunication between the President and the CIA was just part of the operational planning
