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Almost every country has failed miserably at something, for the United States, it was the Bay of Pigs invasion. The United States was angered with the result of Castro coming into power in Cuba and starting to take steps to reduce the American influence on the island. On March 1960, President Eisenhower ordered the Central Intelligence Agency, or known as the CIA, to train and arm a force of Cuban exiles for an attack on Cuba’s developing government. The goal was to end Castro’s ties to the Soviet Union since American’s foreign policy considered Cuba to be a part of the influence in the western hemisphere. Later on John F. Kennedy inherited this program when he became president in 1961. Many advisors indicated that an assault on Cuba of armed …show more content…

President Eisenhower approved the CIA plan to secretly train Cuban exiles to launch an invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba. Soon after president Kennedy was filled in on the plan. The CIA were anxious to take over Cuba since there communist regime was rising. After planning where and when they would have the invasion, “news of the impending invasion as well as the United States involvement in organizing the operation was leaked in several American newspapers” stated in the article about John F. Kennedy relation the the Bay of Invasion. The leakage of the news frightened the president and CIA, so on April 12 “Kennedy lied when publicly denying claims that the United States was planning or supporting an invasion of Cuba” stated in the article about John F. Kennedy relation the the Bay of Invasion. Although Kennedy tried convincing the crowd, the damage was already done. Details were exposed about the plan and Castro soon had his suspicions on the United States. The newspaper leak causes the 1,400 Cuban exiles to be met by the Cuban army the day of the invasion. The CIA had anticipated that it would be easy to overthrow the Cuban government, but this situation was completely different. In one of my secondary sources from Gale, it states “The Bay of Pigs Invasion provided Castro with evidence of what characterized as American …show more content…

From the beginning, the invasion was lead with poor planning and bad execution. The primary source states “The force, which had been secretly trained and armed in Guatemala by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was too large to engage in effective covert operations yet to small to realistically challenge Castro in a military confrontation without additional support of the United States.” The Cuban exiles weren’t trained professionally in the short period of time before the invasion. One of the sources about the plan of the invasion states “The original invasion plan called for two air strikes against Cuban air bases. A 1,400-man invasion force would disembark under cover of darkness and launch a surprise attack. Paratroopers dropped in advance of the invasion would disrupt transportation and repel Cuban forces. Simultaneously, a smaller force would land on the east coast of Cuba to create confusion. The main force would advance across the island to Matanzas and set up a defensive position. The United Revolutionary Front would send leaders from South Florida and establish a provisional government. The success of the plan depended on the Cuban population joining the invaders.” Due to the “ due to inaccurate and ineffective communication between planning and operational personnel, the significant changes that had been instituted within the invasion were not

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