State Department forged a foreign policy program that, in essence,
extended the hand of friendship to Castro. While not condoning or ignoring his excesses,
the state department welcomed him as a full member in the family of American states and
Kennedy wanted to form a group that would formulate plans that would remove
Castro from power. Well ultimately the Bay of Pigs was seen as a foreign policy failure.
It also increased mass migration to the United States. A number of groups sprang up in
the United States to oppose the Communist regime. President Dwight Eshienhower was
looking for non-military solution . So puts an embargo on importing Cuban sugar. The
first step in this whole progress would be to use the diplomatic means of solving this
problem. Since Cuba felt the economic pinch from the United States this in turn drove
Castro into the Soviet corner. President Eshienhower stated, "There has to be an option
left open to a President to counter Communist aggression short of declaring war. The
option he was referring to was the CIA, whose charter read that in addition to the primary
function of collecting and evaluating foreign intelligence, it will perform certain other
functions as directed by the National Security Council." Eisenhower set his
administration's goals in reference to Cuba in a speech he gave on March 4, 1960 in
Groton, Connecticut. He said, "This nation cannot and will not tolerate the establishment
of Soviet satellite ninety miles of our shores. In March 1960 President Eshienhower
authorized the Bay of Pigs. project. In January 1961 the U.S. broke off all diplomatic
The CIA is rode on the success of reforming the regime 1954 in Guatemala. With that
the CIA director Allen Dulles took on the challenge of finding a way to destroy Castro.
Some of the things that were mentioned was to put poison in Castro's cigars. There w...