Bay of Pigs who is to blame
            
             In any military operation there always have to be a plan drawn up to support the
            
             operation. So why was the Bay of Pigs operation such a failure? Some of the questions I
            
             will focus on is what and how much of a role did the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
            
             the Kennedy administration plays in the disaster.
            
             Kennedy came to the White House with a true belief in democracy and the American
            
             dream. Kennedy's background was one of wealth and prestige. Fidel Castro took control
            
             of Cuba by force. When there is a bloody revolution or change it catches the attention of
            
             the U.S. State department, especially when it is only ninety miles away from the coast of
            
             the Unites States.
            
             The Cold War was in full swing. With Castro in power and so close to the United
            
             States this seemed like and clear and present danger to the United States. At this time
            
             President-elect Kennedy Start's to receive daily intelligence briefs on Castro's
            
             movements within the country. The United States had been among the first nations to
            
             recognize the new Castro regime. It maintained a large imposing embassy on the
            
             Malecon, Havana's beautiful waterfront drive. From this embassy, the U.S. State
            
             Department foreign service officers and the Central Intelligence Agency were issuing
            
             countless messages to Washington concerning the deteriorating state of affairs within
            
             Cuba. While the foreign service officers and the CIA were in substantial agreement in
            
             their judgment and evaluation of the Castro regime, the men in Washington to whom the
            
             messages were sent were not.
            
             The CIA, very early in the game, reported on Castro's Communist learning's and the
            
             Communist backgrounds of some of his advisers, but the State Department, led by chief
            
             of Latin American affairs, Roy Rubottom, presented only glowing reports on the new
            
             Cuban...