19-08-2016, 07:30 AM
Kennedy never cancelled a second air strike.
Because the second air strike was contingent upon securing a beach head. That has become pretty clear now with the release of the declassified record. There are at least five sources for this now. Including a couple of CIA ones. Including the revised plan memo of March 15th. (See Destiny Betrayed, second edition, p. 45) And in fact Bissell knew this in advance. (ibid, p. 46) So did Cabell. (ibid)
As McNamara told Noel Twyman, the second raid was not in the final plan. Its something that the CIA sprung on the White House. (ibid) When Dulles understood that he was going to be exposed on this during the Taylor hearings, he had Charles Murphy and Howard Hunt make up this BS story for Fortune Magazine: that JFK had cancelled the second strike. Kennedy was so angry at this canard that he stripped Murphy of his Air Force reserve status. (ibid)
The idea that Kennedy picked Playa Giron is nonsense. Because Dulles and Bissell never left the plans with JFK. He told them to come up with something that less resembled a frontal strike force operation. The CIA picked Playa Giron for two reasons. First, because they told JFK there were no police forces there. Second, because it had better terrain for at least one air strip, and maybe two. (p. 37) Because that early, or late, Kennedy had made it clear to Bissell that he wanted the second strike to come from inside Cuba.
The whole thing was a charade. Once Castro rolled up the resistance on the island, and once he went on full alert, since he knew it was coming, it was doomed. There was no hope of teaming up with any rebels, and not one single deserter ever made it to the front. (ibid, pgs.35, 36, 40) Plus, there was a police force at Playa Giron and they alerted Castro.
The CIA had lied to Kennedy about all of those elements. And not just lied, but lied extravagantly. They had told him that up to 75 % of the militia would defect. (ibid, p. 36) Which was so wrong it was grotesque. But that is why they included something like 27,000 rifles on one of the ships.
This was all exposed during the Taylor hearings, because RFK simply could not believe the BS story that Dulles tried to lay on him.(ibid, p. 42) Lyman Kirkpatrick did not buy it either. (p. 45) As anyone who studied amphibious operations knows, the invading team has to outnumber the defenders, by a significant margin. In this case it was the opposite. And it only got as far as it did because Dulles made sure there were no amphibious experts on the CIA review team. That is how crafty the old fart was about this.
Because the second air strike was contingent upon securing a beach head. That has become pretty clear now with the release of the declassified record. There are at least five sources for this now. Including a couple of CIA ones. Including the revised plan memo of March 15th. (See Destiny Betrayed, second edition, p. 45) And in fact Bissell knew this in advance. (ibid, p. 46) So did Cabell. (ibid)
As McNamara told Noel Twyman, the second raid was not in the final plan. Its something that the CIA sprung on the White House. (ibid) When Dulles understood that he was going to be exposed on this during the Taylor hearings, he had Charles Murphy and Howard Hunt make up this BS story for Fortune Magazine: that JFK had cancelled the second strike. Kennedy was so angry at this canard that he stripped Murphy of his Air Force reserve status. (ibid)
The idea that Kennedy picked Playa Giron is nonsense. Because Dulles and Bissell never left the plans with JFK. He told them to come up with something that less resembled a frontal strike force operation. The CIA picked Playa Giron for two reasons. First, because they told JFK there were no police forces there. Second, because it had better terrain for at least one air strip, and maybe two. (p. 37) Because that early, or late, Kennedy had made it clear to Bissell that he wanted the second strike to come from inside Cuba.
The whole thing was a charade. Once Castro rolled up the resistance on the island, and once he went on full alert, since he knew it was coming, it was doomed. There was no hope of teaming up with any rebels, and not one single deserter ever made it to the front. (ibid, pgs.35, 36, 40) Plus, there was a police force at Playa Giron and they alerted Castro.
The CIA had lied to Kennedy about all of those elements. And not just lied, but lied extravagantly. They had told him that up to 75 % of the militia would defect. (ibid, p. 36) Which was so wrong it was grotesque. But that is why they included something like 27,000 rifles on one of the ships.
This was all exposed during the Taylor hearings, because RFK simply could not believe the BS story that Dulles tried to lay on him.(ibid, p. 42) Lyman Kirkpatrick did not buy it either. (p. 45) As anyone who studied amphibious operations knows, the invading team has to outnumber the defenders, by a significant margin. In this case it was the opposite. And it only got as far as it did because Dulles made sure there were no amphibious experts on the CIA review team. That is how crafty the old fart was about this.