Bay of Pigs

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• SOURCE: War on The Rocks
  3/22/2022
  

  Beware the Imperative in Foreign Policymaking

  by Michael J. Mazarr

  When foreign policy decisions are presented as imperative – that some action must be taken –  consideration for the consequences is often neglected. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/22/2021
  

  History Suggests Biden Should Ditch His Yes-Men

  "Part of the problem with the Afghanistan decision-making process was that the president didn’t appear to be hearing dissent from his political aides."

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• 4/11/2021
  

  60 Years Later: The Enduring Legacy of the Bay of Pigs Fiasco

  by Stephen F. Knott

  The failed invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained operatives at the Bay of Pigs set the Kennedy administration on a path of increasingly abusive covert operations against the communist regime, with consequences for US-Cuban relations and American foreign policy that still reverberate. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10-31-16
  

  CIA Releases Controversial Bay of Pigs History

  The agency had fought to keep the history secret for decades. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia magazine
  8-9-16
  

  CIA sued to disclose a history of the Bay of Pigs by in-house historian

  A Villanova professor wants access to the late Jack Pfeiffer’s full history of the disaster.

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• 12-5-15
  

  It’s Time to Stop Saying that JFK Inherited the Bay of Pigs Operation from Ike

  by Irwin F. Gellman

  That’s just another Camelot myth.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives
  8-11-14
  

  Former Chief historian of the CIA explains why he nixed a secret history of the Bay of Pigs

  by Ken McDonald

  The former chief historian says that the internal history of the Bay of Pigs crisis was flawed and tendentious. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  5-21-14
  

  CIA covers up Bay of Pigs history

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit joined the CIA's cover-up of its Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 by ruling that a 30-year-old volume of the CIA's draft "official history" could be withheld from the public.

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• Failures of the Presidents: JFK's Bay of Pigs Disaster

  by Thomas J. Craughwell with M. William Phelps

  Many of the men of Brigade 2506 believed fervently that they were the first wave of Cuban freedom fighters who would liberate their homeland.