The investigation analyzes the situation in Cuba and the United States in 1960 and 1961. Insight into the internal conflict between the Kennedy’s administration, the CIA’s disputable decisions, and President John F. Kennedy’s inexperience as president, will shed light onto the question: To what extent did the shortcomings and limitations of John F. Kennedy’s administration reflect onto The Bay of Pigs incident in 1961?
The primary source that will be evaluated is a publication of the secret CIA report on the invasion of Cuba. New York Times calls this book, Bay of Pigs Declassified, edited by Peter Kornbluh as, “One of the most secret documents of the Cold War.”
The source is a book comprising of the Inspector General’s report on the CIA’s failed attempts in overthrowing the Fidel Castro regime. The purpose of this report is to …show more content…
Kennedy did not like the idea of a dawn landing, he wanted it to be more guerilla-like. The CIA had been preparing to strike Cuba with a frontal assault for five months and now Kennedy, just a month before the invasion, was still on guerrilla warfare. This portrays how distant the president and the CIA were in their conception of goals and executions. Yet, historians say it was the CIA who were not sure what they were doing. “The Agency was recruiting and training Cuban troops and otherwise proceeding with a changed plan not yet definitely formulated or reduced to writing, with no assurance that the invasion, which was now the essence of the plan, would ultimately be authorized by the new Administration. The Agency was driving forward without knowing precisely where it was going” (Kornbluh 49). Nevertheless, it is the president's duty to review the plan and ensure its effective results. President Kennedy later proclaims “How could I have been so stupid to let them go ahead?” (Storenson
The primary source that will be evaluated is a publication of the secret CIA report on the invasion of Cuba. New York Times calls this book, Bay of Pigs Declassified, edited by Peter Kornbluh as, “One of the most secret documents of the Cold War.”
The source is a book comprising of the Inspector General’s report on the CIA’s failed attempts in overthrowing the Fidel Castro regime. The purpose of this report is to …show more content…
Kennedy did not like the idea of a dawn landing, he wanted it to be more guerilla-like. The CIA had been preparing to strike Cuba with a frontal assault for five months and now Kennedy, just a month before the invasion, was still on guerrilla warfare. This portrays how distant the president and the CIA were in their conception of goals and executions. Yet, historians say it was the CIA who were not sure what they were doing. “The Agency was recruiting and training Cuban troops and otherwise proceeding with a changed plan not yet definitely formulated or reduced to writing, with no assurance that the invasion, which was now the essence of the plan, would ultimately be authorized by the new Administration. The Agency was driving forward without knowing precisely where it was going” (Kornbluh 49). Nevertheless, it is the president's duty to review the plan and ensure its effective results. President Kennedy later proclaims “How could I have been so stupid to let them go ahead?” (Storenson