Bay of Pigs

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...

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