Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not want it. In any event, Bobby Kennedy realizes that Allen Dulles has to go, making way for a younger man who can give the CIA a thorough overhauling. But the Kennedy brothers are not angry with Allen Dulles. Indeed, as a man, Dulles emerged from the Cuba fiasco with high personal honors. Shortly before the invasion, he urged a bigger air strike to knock out Cuban planes on the ground before the invaders landed, but he was overruled at the insistence of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. When the invasion flopped, Dulles took full blame...
During the darkest hours of the Administration's soul searching about the Cuban fiasco, Udall went on TV. Attempting to explain that the purpose of Kennedy's meetings with Republican leaders was national unity, Udall remarked: "After all, President Eisenhower and his Vice President conceived this plan. They started it; they, I suppose, in effect handed it on to the President...
Since he never specified just what sort of abuses he was talking about, Kennedy left the newspapers free to speculate that he was blaming the Cuban fiasco on their indiscretions. Actually, of course, the American press has accorded the government very handsome treatment on Cuba: since December, Fidel Castro has been charging the United States with attack preparations, the Russians were writing of our rebel training sites, and the French press has been discussing the impending invasion. The only group in the world ignorant of American government activities in Guatemala and Florida has been the American public, which was told...
...Government. CIA's duties are prescribed by Congress, but in the most guarded terms. It is CIA's business to stay out of the news-yet sometimes it fails in that aim with spectacular results. Last week, with CIA bearing heavy responsibility for the Cuban fiasco, was one of those times. What is CIA? What does it do? And how well...
...Russians did not back away again, the decision would bring a sigh of relief in the U.S. For the Cuba fiasco had seriously damaged the U.S.'s bargaining position and its implied threat to get tough in Laos if its patience was tried too far. In a last-minute attempt to shore up the lackadaisical Royal Army, the U.S. arranged for the Laotian government to request a U.S. military mission, and briskly agreed to supply one. In reality, this simply meant that the 200-man group of U.S. soldiers in mufti would put on military uniforms and acquire...