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Article: Bay of Pigs fiasco laid to JFK advisers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 13, 1986
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WASHINGTON "All my life I've known better than to depend on the
experts. How could I have been so stupid to let them go ahead?"
Twenty-five years ago this month, John F. Kennedy uttered those
words after presiding over one of the most tragic miscalculations in
American history.
His top advisers had assured him that a CIA plan to topple the
government of Cuban President Fidel Castro was a "no-lose
proposition."
Instead, the 1,400-man force of CIA-trained and equipped Cuban
exiles who invaded the island at the Bay of Pigs met disaster.
The failed invasion handed Kennedy the worst setback of his
political career and consolidated Castro's grip on power more than
any other single ...