ted president. Upon
             his election, he was informed of the Cuban crisis and after
             being presented with the facts, he approved the invasion.
             Many plans for the invasion were recognized, but the
             best one came from Richard Bissel. He describes his plan in
             "The plan that was finally accepted was
             a more complex and larger version of the
             operation seven years earlier in
             Guatemala. A force of Cuban exiles was
             to secure a beachhead on Cuba's
             coastline while a fleet of B-26's, the
             ...