nd his men made
             a rapid move to change their political course. He announced
             his transformation to Marxism-Leninism and avowed his
             friendship with the Soviet Union (Goode, Stephen 75).
             These events upset the United States and there were concerns
             about Castro becoming too powerful. One reason was the
             friendship with the Soviet Union because Cuba was receiving
             armed forces to expand and improve its army. Cuba received
             30,000 tons of arms a year, which included Soviet JS-2
             51-ton tanks, SU-100 assault guns, T-34 35-ton tanks, 76-mm
             field guns, 85-mm field guns, and 122-mm field guns (Goode,
             Fidel Castro took great pride in the armed forces. He
             expanded the ground forces from 250,000 to 400,000 troops.
             These figures put one out of every thirty Cubans in the
             armed forces, compared to one out of every sixty Americans
             (Goode, Stephen 76). Castro and communist Cuba was
             generating a military establishment ten times larger than
             that of Batista's. Castro put together the best army any
             Latin American country had ever had (Goode, Stephen 76).
             Analysts in Washington were frightened by this news. They
             were getting scared that Cuba might try to attack the United
             States with Soviet missiles and missile launchers. Also,
             they were afraid that Castro might attack other Latin
             American countries. Both scenarios were not welcome in the
             United States, and the downfall of Castro and the Cuban
             government became the top priority of the CIA (Goode,
             There were many Cubans that did not like Castro. They
             flocked to the United States in order to escape communism.
             These people were known as Cuban exiles (Goode, Stephen
             76). On March 17, 1960, the CIA and President Eisenhower
             got together and discussed the situation going on in Cuba.
             They decided to arm and train these Cuban exiles for
             guerrilla warfare against Cuba (Goode, Stephen 76&77). In
             November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elec...