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In reply to the discussion: JFK worked to keep peace, bring prosperity for all. Others since 22 Nov 1963, not so much. [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)begun in the Eisenhower Administration. It had been in the planning stages for at least a year prior to JFK's inauguration, which was only three months before the actual operation.
And the Eisenhower Admin's point man for the project was Richard M. Nixon.
CIA Director Allen Dulles lied Kennedy into signing off on it. The invasion was meant to fail and be used as a pretext for air attacks and a land invasion by the US military. Kennedy absolutely refused to authorize any of those plans. This is all extremely well documented by highly reputable historians, including Kennedy's own direct quotes that "that son of a bitch (Dulles) looked me in the eye and lied to me" and that he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."