I remember JRF's brilliant success with the Bay of
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I remember JRF's brilliant success with the Bay of Pigs
Some State Department and other advisors to the new American president, John F. Kennedy, maintained that Castro posed no real threat to America, but the new president believed that masterminding the Cuban leader’s removal would show Russia, China and skeptical Americans that he was serious about winning the Cold War.
CIA officers told him they could keep U.S. involvement in the invasion a secret and, if all went according to plan, the campaign would spark an anti-Castro uprising on the island.
The first part of the plan was to destroy Castro’s tiny air force, making it impossible for his military to resist the invaders. On April 15, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicaragua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes, and conducted a strike against Cuban airfields.
However, it turned out that Castro and his advisers knew about the raid and had moved his planes out of harm’s way. Frustrated, Kennedy began to suspect that the plan the CIA had promised would be “both clandestine and successful” might in fact be “too large to be clandestine and too small to be successful.”
JFK committed one of the worst blunders of any new president by supporting the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion
https://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/...y-mistakes
https://stream.org/john-f-kennedys-fateful-mistake/
And let's not forget Kennedy's expansion in the Vietnam War that cost the lives of 1,353,000 America. k
Some State Department and other advisors to the new American president, John F. Kennedy, maintained that Castro posed no real threat to America, but the new president believed that masterminding the Cuban leader’s removal would show Russia, China and skeptical Americans that he was serious about winning the Cold War.
CIA officers told him they could keep U.S. involvement in the invasion a secret and, if all went according to plan, the campaign would spark an anti-Castro uprising on the island.
The first part of the plan was to destroy Castro’s tiny air force, making it impossible for his military to resist the invaders. On April 15, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicaragua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes, and conducted a strike against Cuban airfields.
However, it turned out that Castro and his advisers knew about the raid and had moved his planes out of harm’s way. Frustrated, Kennedy began to suspect that the plan the CIA had promised would be “both clandestine and successful” might in fact be “too large to be clandestine and too small to be successful.”
JFK committed one of the worst blunders of any new president by supporting the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion
https://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/...y-mistakes
https://stream.org/john-f-kennedys-fateful-mistake/
And let's not forget Kennedy's expansion in the Vietnam War that cost the lives of 1,353,000 America. k
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