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What Went Wrong In The Bay Of Pigs Invasion

Term Paper Title What Went Wrong In The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
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What Went Wrong in the Bay of Pigs Invasion

During the Bay of Pigs Invasion, there were many problems with the actual plan, and this is what caused the failure. Frankly, I feel that this plan
was very good, and don't know where the fatal mistake was if I hadn't read about it, because it wasn't very obvious. The Inspector General
suggested these conclusions on page 143 of the Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation:

"1.The Central Intelligence Agency, after starting to build up the resistance and guerilla forces inside Cuba, drastically concerted the project into
what rapidly became an overt military operation. The Agency failed to recognize that when the project advanced beyond the stage of plausible
denial it was going beyond the area of Agency responsibility as well as Agency capability.

"2.The Agency became so wrapped up in the military operation that it failed to appraise the [blurred] of [blurred] realistically. Furthermore, it
failed to keep the national policy-makers adequately and realistically informed of the conditions considered essential for success, and it did not
[burred] sufficiently for prompt policy decisions in a fast moving

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