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President John F. Kennedy (JFK) has always taken the blame for the failure of the Bay Of Pigs (BOP) operation from folks on the official side (perhaps some who are not too) due to not ordering in “fighter cover”. As the years have gone by research has shown that JFK did order an attack to get Fidel Castro’s last 3 jet planes the night before, but the order was canceled by McGeorge Bundy!
Based on the way the covert operations group was set-up under Truman (5412 Committee) it was illegal for the president to use U.S. military in covert operations. The BOP invasion was a COVERT operation! JFK was forbidden from using ANY U.S. military forces in this operation, so why has he had to take the blame for NOT ordering in U.S. Forces (he actually did but Bundy canceled them) into this operation? Furthermore, 13 air sorties would be called in from Nicaragua on the invasion day to cover the landings (3 B-26’s would be lost) so this excuse of no “air cover” is bogus on top of it.
The real question should be, “Why was Allen Dulles out of the country on the day the invasion took place. This was his agency’s baby for a long time yet he decides to leave the country when it began?
Here is a summary of the events as they happened:
1 – The crucial D-Day strikes are canceled, supposedly by the President (but really by McGeorge Bundy), without the CIA attempting to consult him directly, because there would be “no point” in it.
2- The same strikes are made on D-Day evening, when it is too late, again without consulting the President.
3- The crucial D+2 ammunition supply convoy is stopped, without consulting the President, because it was “futile.”
4 – The re-supply is attempted by air on D+2, when it is too late, this time consulting the President.
For two years the Republicans and Cuban exiles blamed JFK for the failure as they said he did not approve air cover. Finally, in January 1963 Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) set the record straight in an interview with U.S. News & World Report:
"I can say unequivocally," he declared, "that President Kennedy never withdrew U.S. air cover...There never were any plans made for U.S. air cover, so there was nothing to withdraw..." (Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, in U.S. News 6 World Report, January 28, 1963.)
And again: "There never was any promise. Not even under Mr. Eisenhower was American air cover in the picture." (Ibid.)
There is very little doubt to all who have studied this operation that the TRUE plan was for it to fail and for the new president to cave into the pressure the CIA put on him to USE U.S. military forces. There is no other reasonable explanation for launching 1,500 exiles onto a beach to take on the 200,000 man army Castro had. It didn’t work. (Note: I guess if JFK was really a war hawk like some have said recently it would have worked.)
The CIA did an internal study of this operation and found that itself was to blame. Of course, almost all copies of this report were “lost”, but luckily a few were left to be “found.” Here is the outline of the blame.
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The paper also carries excerpts from the report, which states that: "The agency committed at least four extremely serious mistakes in planning:
a. Failure to subject the project, especially in its latter frenzied stages, to a cold and objective appraisal by the best operating talent available, particularly by those not involved in the operation, such as the Chief of Operations and the chiefs of the Senior Staffs. Had this been done, the two following mistakes (b and c, below) might have been avoided.
b. Failure to advise the president, at an appropriate time, that success had become dubious and to recommend that the operation be therefore canceled and that the problem of unseating Castro be restudied.
c. Failure to recognize that the project had become overt and that the military effort had become too large to be handled by the agency alone.
d. Failure to reduce successive project plans to formal papers and to leave copies of them with the president and his advisers and to request specific written approval and confirmation thereof.
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The reason this topic is pertinent to the JFK assassination is because it shows the relationship between the CIA and JFK’s administration. This is important because some individuals in the CIA have many ties to the assassination and several have outright admitted it (Hunt and Morales for example). This is not conjecture as one can just look at NSAM’s 55, 56 & 57 to see the effect this operation had on JFK’s mindset regarding the CIA.
JFK’s autobiographer, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., had lunch with JFK during the BOP invasion and remembered him saying the following.
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I probably made a mistake in keeping Allen Dulles on. It’s not that Dulles is not a man of great ability. He is. But I have never worked with him, and therefore I can’t estimate his meaning when he tells me things…Dulles is a legendary figure, and its hard to work with legendary figures…I made a mistake in putting Bobby in the Justice Department. He is wasted there…Bobby should be in CIA…It is a hell of a way to learn things, but I have learned one thing from this business – that is, that we’ll have to deal with the CIA.
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From some sources I have read the main way he was going to deal with them is to do what he told Schlesinger in 1961 – put Bobby in charge of the CIA in 1964/1965 after he won re-election! Can you imagine this happening?
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy would also flame the fires by talking with the Media and stating that this was a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and CIA plan.
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Robert Kennedy, in this interview and a similar one with U.S. News & World Report, said something else of greater, and historical, significance: a ranking official of the government for the first time admitted clearly, and on the record, that the Bay of Pigs was a United States operation, planned by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. "The President had to give approval to the plan," [Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, in U.S. News & World Report, January 28, 1963.] Robert Kennedy said. The Joint Chiefs "did approve it, although responsibility for the planning lay primarily with the CIA." (Prior to this, the clearest statement by the administration was made by President Kennedy in an interview with the three major TV networks on December 17,1962. Speaking in general terms of the 1961 Cuban invasion, the President said: "And I was responsible.") ("Invisible Government", David Wise & Thomas Ross, "Chapter Four: The Case of The Birmingham Widows", 1964.)
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Of course, we know Dulles was let go by JFK and that FACT and the points above make it ridiculous for him to have been appointed to the Warren Commission if the TRUTH is what was sought by them.
How did McGeorge Bundy do after his misreading of the entire plan? He got an upgrade to his role as national security advisor! He was moved from the drabby Executive Office Building to the West Wing! He begins to preside over daily morning meetings with the National Security Council staff and tries to take over the war room.
The BOP was a failure because it was supposed to be one. The purpose was to force JFK to use the United States military, but he refused. To his credit, he took full responsibility for the failure unlike current day politicians.
"President Kennedy has stated from the beginning," Salinger declared, "that as President he bears sole responsibility for the events of the past days. He has stated on all occasions, and he restates it now, so it will be understood by all. The President is strongly opposed to anyone within or without the administration attempting to shift the responsibility." (Statement issued by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger on April 24, 1961.)
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President John F. Kennedy (JFK) has always taken the blame for the failure of the Bay Of Pigs (BOP) operation from folks on the official side (perhaps some who are not too) due to not ordering in “fighter cover”. As the years have gone by research has shown that JFK did order an attack to get Fidel Castro’s last 3 jet planes the night before, but the order was canceled by McGeorge Bundy!
Based on the way the covert operations group was set-up under Truman (5412 Committee) it was illegal for the president to use U.S. military in covert operations. The BOP invasion was a COVERT operation! JFK was forbidden from using ANY U.S. military forces in this operation, so why has he had to take the blame for NOT ordering in U.S. Forces (he actually did but Bundy canceled them) into this operation? Furthermore, 13 air sorties would be called in from Nicaragua on the invasion day to cover the landings (3 B-26’s would be lost) so this excuse of no “air cover” is bogus on top of it.
The real question should be, “Why was Allen Dulles out of the country on the day the invasion took place. This was his agency’s baby for a long time yet he decides to leave the country when it began?
Here is a summary of the events as they happened:
1 – The crucial D-Day strikes are canceled, supposedly by the President (but really by McGeorge Bundy), without the CIA attempting to consult him directly, because there would be “no point” in it.
2- The same strikes are made on D-Day evening, when it is too late, again without consulting the President.
3- The crucial D+2 ammunition supply convoy is stopped, without consulting the President, because it was “futile.”
4 – The re-supply is attempted by air on D+2, when it is too late, this time consulting the President.
For two years the Republicans and Cuban exiles blamed JFK for the failure as they said he did not approve air cover. Finally, in January 1963 Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) set the record straight in an interview with U.S. News & World Report:
"I can say unequivocally," he declared, "that President Kennedy never withdrew U.S. air cover...There never were any plans made for U.S. air cover, so there was nothing to withdraw..." (Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, in U.S. News 6 World Report, January 28, 1963.)
And again: "There never was any promise. Not even under Mr. Eisenhower was American air cover in the picture." (Ibid.)
There is very little doubt to all who have studied this operation that the TRUE plan was for it to fail and for the new president to cave into the pressure the CIA put on him to USE U.S. military forces. There is no other reasonable explanation for launching 1,500 exiles onto a beach to take on the 200,000 man army Castro had. It didn’t work. (Note: I guess if JFK was really a war hawk like some have said recently it would have worked.)
The CIA did an internal study of this operation and found that itself was to blame. Of course, almost all copies of this report were “lost”, but luckily a few were left to be “found.” Here is the outline of the blame.
Quote on
The paper also carries excerpts from the report, which states that: "The agency committed at least four extremely serious mistakes in planning:
a. Failure to subject the project, especially in its latter frenzied stages, to a cold and objective appraisal by the best operating talent available, particularly by those not involved in the operation, such as the Chief of Operations and the chiefs of the Senior Staffs. Had this been done, the two following mistakes (b and c, below) might have been avoided.
b. Failure to advise the president, at an appropriate time, that success had become dubious and to recommend that the operation be therefore canceled and that the problem of unseating Castro be restudied.
c. Failure to recognize that the project had become overt and that the military effort had become too large to be handled by the agency alone.
d. Failure to reduce successive project plans to formal papers and to leave copies of them with the president and his advisers and to request specific written approval and confirmation thereof.
Quote off
The reason this topic is pertinent to the JFK assassination is because it shows the relationship between the CIA and JFK’s administration. This is important because some individuals in the CIA have many ties to the assassination and several have outright admitted it (Hunt and Morales for example). This is not conjecture as one can just look at NSAM’s 55, 56 & 57 to see the effect this operation had on JFK’s mindset regarding the CIA.
JFK’s autobiographer, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., had lunch with JFK during the BOP invasion and remembered him saying the following.
Quote on
I probably made a mistake in keeping Allen Dulles on. It’s not that Dulles is not a man of great ability. He is. But I have never worked with him, and therefore I can’t estimate his meaning when he tells me things…Dulles is a legendary figure, and its hard to work with legendary figures…I made a mistake in putting Bobby in the Justice Department. He is wasted there…Bobby should be in CIA…It is a hell of a way to learn things, but I have learned one thing from this business – that is, that we’ll have to deal with the CIA.
Quote off
From some sources I have read the main way he was going to deal with them is to do what he told Schlesinger in 1961 – put Bobby in charge of the CIA in 1964/1965 after he won re-election! Can you imagine this happening?
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy would also flame the fires by talking with the Media and stating that this was a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and CIA plan.
Quote on
Robert Kennedy, in this interview and a similar one with U.S. News & World Report, said something else of greater, and historical, significance: a ranking official of the government for the first time admitted clearly, and on the record, that the Bay of Pigs was a United States operation, planned by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA. "The President had to give approval to the plan," [Interview with Robert F. Kennedy, in U.S. News & World Report, January 28, 1963.] Robert Kennedy said. The Joint Chiefs "did approve it, although responsibility for the planning lay primarily with the CIA." (Prior to this, the clearest statement by the administration was made by President Kennedy in an interview with the three major TV networks on December 17,1962. Speaking in general terms of the 1961 Cuban invasion, the President said: "And I was responsible.") ("Invisible Government", David Wise & Thomas Ross, "Chapter Four: The Case of The Birmingham Widows", 1964.)
Quote off
Of course, we know Dulles was let go by JFK and that FACT and the points above make it ridiculous for him to have been appointed to the Warren Commission if the TRUTH is what was sought by them.
How did McGeorge Bundy do after his misreading of the entire plan? He got an upgrade to his role as national security advisor! He was moved from the drabby Executive Office Building to the West Wing! He begins to preside over daily morning meetings with the National Security Council staff and tries to take over the war room.
The BOP was a failure because it was supposed to be one. The purpose was to force JFK to use the United States military, but he refused. To his credit, he took full responsibility for the failure unlike current day politicians.
"President Kennedy has stated from the beginning," Salinger declared, "that as President he bears sole responsibility for the events of the past days. He has stated on all occasions, and he restates it now, so it will be understood by all. The President is strongly opposed to anyone within or without the administration attempting to shift the responsibility." (Statement issued by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger on April 24, 1961.)