Bay Of Pigs Invasion Revisted

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was one of the single biggest failures in United States history. The invasion intended to topple Fidel Castro and his Cuban dictatorship. However, Castro fought off the operation put together by the Kennedy Administration and the CIA. The failed operation had many consequences for the United States. The failure of the invasion caused embarrassment to the Kennedy Administration and resulted in the restructuring of the CIA, sparked a confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviets that eventually led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and resulted in a major victory for Castro and the Cuban Revolution.

The outcome of the Bay of Pigs invasion was the most embarrassing event that happened to the Kennedy administration and the CIA. The invasion was the ?most ill judged and disastrous single policy venture undertaken by the U.S. government since the end of the Second World War.?# The bungled attempt to attack Cuba would forever be a black eye of the CIA and the Kennedy government.

After careful scrutiny of the operation it was decided that the CIA had given President Kennedy wrong information and he therefore decided to attack Cuba. Immediately after the invasion was over Kennedy called for the resignation of Allen Dulles (Director), Charles P. Cabell (Deputy Director) and the one principally responsible for the operation Richard Bissell (Deputy Director). Along with the firings the CIA went through a major overhaul so that this would never occur again. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco the CIA would never be the same.# Along with the failed invasion, Kennedy had to deal with the release of the captured prisoners who Castro was holding for ransom. Rather then kill the prisoners Castro decided to offer their trade for an exchange of tractors. The tractors would help boost Cuba?s agricultural economy.