I’ve posted and spoken about this topic on several occasions and address it in excruciating detail in my book In Denial. All of that has made little real impression, possibly because the disaster at the Bay of Pigs was only the final, dramatic but relatively brief, event in what had been a year long project actually authorized by President Eisenhower, not JFK himself.

You really cannot understand the trauma of the landings in Cuba without the full history of the project, what Eisenhower had ordered (which did not happen), what JFK had approved (which did not happen), and in particular what those involved in the military aspects of the project were not told by the CIA leadership – the withholding of information, along with extreme mismanagement over the course of a full year, were the causes for the failure as cited by both the CIA IG and its official historian.

Still, to this day I get responses that JFK was warned about the risks and ignored the warnings. The reality is that to some extent indeed he was warned – and constantly pushed back for CIA responses on the warnings, being given assurances that the concerns were all being addressed.

I can’t seem to get across the extent to which he was isolated from the military realities by the CIA leadership, being only weeks in office when he was even told about the project and at the time far too trusting of people that had been working on the project since the previous spring.

In pursuit of getting the truth of the matter across I recently agreed to do a reading series from my book for the AARC. It proved to be lengthy, tiring and not fully complete as it does not cover some of the details of the ‘wild card’ operations project leader Richard Bissell had in play – poisoning Fidel Castro, a false flag attack on Guantanamo, and the deployment of Navy strike forces which would have caused international condemnation but which would have overwhelmed the Cuban military within 48 hours (none of which were related to JFK).

On the other hand you can get much of the story by listening to the following, just not all of it https://aarclibrary.org/larry-hancock-in-denial-the-bay-of-pigs-parts-one-two-and-three/

If you do decide to listen, I will be here for questions. Larry

LARRY HANCOCK: IN DENIAL – THE BAY of PIGS PARTS ONE, TWO, and THREE