This assignment explores Bay of Pigs invasion. 1. What did the author suggest was the reasoning behind JFK’s decision to launch the Bay of Pigs invasion? JFK’s motivations for starting the Bay of Pigs invasion are still unclear, but he acted because he could not allow a hostile communist state to exist near to Florida.

Bay of Pigs invasion.

1. What did the author suggest was the reasoning behind JFK’s decision to launch the Bay of Pigs invasion? JFK’s motivations for starting the Bay of Pigs invasion are still unclear, but he acted because he could not allow a hostile communist state to exist near to Florida. In this case, the author posits that… “it appeared, his first real opportunity to strike a blow at the communist world when to do otherwise would be an admission of defeat having serious long-range consequences” (6). Therefore, JFK launched the invasion to defeat the state against communists.

Bay of Pigs invasion.

2. Who was Richard Bissell, what was his background, what other operations, concerning other countries, did he oversee, what was his position in the CIA, and what role did he play in the Bay of Pigs invasion? Bissell was a brilliant economist who received his education at Yale. He also held important government posts and performed duties like those of the War Shipping Administration, which made it possible for him to attend the negotiations in Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec. According to the author, Bissell… “worked with the Ford Foundation before accepting a CIA position in 1954 as Dulles’s special assistance, where he helped develop the U-2 spy plane” (13-14)

Bay of Pigs invasion.

3. Castro engaged in what activities that caused some to believe Castro was in fact a Communist? Castro engaged in various activities that caused some people to believe that he was a communist. First, he waged military campaigns to spread the revolution to neighboring Latin American nations and delivered vehement anti-American tirades. Second, the author posits that “Castro had a general Marxist orientation …. to realize that popularity at home lay in denouncing America…” (12). Third, Castro frequently criticized the United States while relying on Soviet security. 4. What were the two approaches the US considered for regime change in Cuba?

Bay of Pigs invasion.

What was Richard Nixon’s role? To what was Bissell referring when he proposed a “gangster-type action”? The US considered assassination and war as the two approaches for regime change in Cuba. Bissell intended to eliminate individuals through the gangster-type action as he instructs the chief to “develop the means for either disabling or getting rid of the target figure” (14) Nixon on the other hand was a ardent supporter. 5. What were the Eisenhower administration’s views on Castro and Cuba, and how did its plans evolve? What key administration people were involved with the invasion’s planning?

Bay of Pigs invasion.

The main choices to isolate and overthrow the Castro regime and Cuba were made during the Eisenhower administration. As part of the plan the administration “… issued a note supported by Bissell, Dulles, approved in a mid-December recommendation by the head of the agency’s Western Hemisphere Division Colonel Joseph C. king, to consider the elimination of Fidel Castro” (13). 6. How did the Soviet Union become involved? What were the early actions and comments by the Soviet primer Nikita Khrushchev?

Bay of Pigs invasion.

In response, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev increased American anxiety while bragging to the world press in Moscow about his new communist comrade and issued an ominous warning to the US. The author posits that “the short and rotund leaders soon made clear that he was capable of overly dramatic if not unbalanced behavior, constantly searching for that chink in the American armor he might exploit in the growing Cold war”. (18). 7. As the planning developed for the projected what were the difficulties and issues that hindered the operation?  https://youtu.be/BpXEZQhzSKM

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