The Bay of Pigs was a major catastophe. I live in South Florida and know Cuban families who were real Castro victims. Kennedy was a brand new, inexperienced president who made a major error. Eisenhower took him to the woodshed for it and then publicly voiced support for Kennedy to calm the nation’s worries. A year later we had the Cuban Missile Crisis and the outcome was quite different.
I agree that the CIA was anti-communist. They were loaded with cold warriors that Ike himself put into place. That is one reason why Ike’s public support of Kennedy was so important after the Bay of Pigs. Eisenhower is also known to have warned Kennedy about getting mixed up in Viet Nam. Lyndon Johnson, the boorish fool he was, thought he knew better and history tells us how that ended.
As a side note..there is a bizarre story involving bay of pigs veteran oswald hernandez campos and Obama’s father..he claimed..or someone claiming to be him that Obamas father was cuban
Since I dont speak Spanish not sure about this part...he was on a ship and somehow castro helped him..dont remember how
He is pretty bitter about bay of pigs..living in exile in Asheville