25-08-2016, 11:00 PM
Anthony Thorne Wrote:Jim mentions the Kirkpatrick report. Googling around for it, I see the National Security Archives eventually obtained most of the Jack Pfeiffer report, linked here
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/
which contains
Quote:lengthy and harsh critiques of two previous official investigations of the Bay of Pigs: the report of the Presidential Commission led by Gen. Maxwell Taylor; and the CIA's own Inspector General's report written in the aftermath of the failed assault.
Are the Kirkpatrick and Pfeiffer reports both worth reading? Does anyone have any comments about any pros and cons I might encounter if I dig through both? Just curious, and happy to hear anyone's thoughts.
As someone who is not bias, Robert Kennedy did make sure that his brother Jack would not be responsible for the fiasco through the Taylor report, but, he was the president that did have three months to call it off, or at the very least postponed the operation.