The bay of pigs occured on April 15, 1961. The Bay of Pigs began when the CIA-financed and trained a group of Cuban refugees to land in Cube and tried to get rid of the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack had failed miserably. The plan had failed due to last minute cancellations and when Casro ordered about 20,00 troops in advance to go to the attack site, the cuban air force had dominated the sky; not allowing the US military to fight back. As this invasion went on, the chance of the U.S winning was decreasing, president Kennedy authorized an “air-umbrella” at dawn. This has demolished the US military. Since Kennedy was new in office he wanted to please everyone and do the “right thing” but since the plan was created by the CIA, …show more content…
As soon as the U.S. turned against Fidel Castro, the intelligence agencies focused on removing him from power, egged on first by Dwight Eisenhower and then by John Kennedy. Later on the head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, spent JFK's first White House briefing told him that "the time to overthrow Fidel Castro was now or never." (Rasenberger 200) The novel “the brilliant disaster” by Jim Rasenberger talks about how the CIA pushed the operation to overthrow Castro and how the CIA manipulated the president into agreeing with the plan of the invasion. The author describes how the CIA had somehow tricked or fooled the president into initiating the failure of the event. John F Kennedy went through with the invasion, mostly because he could not find a way to get out of it. Rasenberger states that there were two things influencing Kennedy to go through with the plan; that Kennedy needed to do something big to show that he can be the president and “beat the Eisenhower administration”, and that the CIA had tricked him into going through with it. Sources from Rasenburgers novel states that the white house were feeding the press stories on how the CIA had "sold" them on the plan; how the Joint Chiefs has signed off on it; also that the president had been ill-advised. But evidence shows in the front page of the washington post there is a picture of President Kennedy accepting the advice of the