Bay of Pigs Brigada 2506

You can learn more about the Bay of Pigs in a Babalú exclusive 7-part series by historian Diego, Ph.D. titled: The Bay of Pigs: In defense of Truth and History:"
http://www.babalublog.com/2017/04/17/56th-anniversary-of-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-honoring-the-courage-and-sacrifice-of-brigada-2506/

Part 1
In this 52nd anniversary of the heroic, but failed, Bay of Pigs invasion, it is more necessary than ever to try to establish the facts and dispel the many myths that still prevail about this controversial event.  It is even more important to deny the conspiracy theories that many still cling to against all historic evidence. This essay begins with an examination of the two plans elaborated by the CIA to invade Cuba with a military force made up of anti Castro Cuban patriots in April, 1961, to overthrow the Fidel Castro regime.  The many myths and conspiracy theories will be examined later.
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/05/29/babalu-exclusive-part-ithe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history/

Part 2
Kennedy had made Cuba a large and important part of his presidential campaign, accusing the Eisenhower-Nixon administration of being soft on Cuban communism.  Nixon was enraged, since he could not reveal the plans against Castro and he thought Kennedy was being unpatriotic by misusing his knowledge.  Kennedy also misused another key campaign issue, the so-called missile gap.  There was a missile gap, but it was in favor of the US. Yet again, Nixon could not talk about the overwhelming American superiority without revealing that fact to the Soviet Union (USSR).
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/05/30/babalu-exclusivethe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history-part-ii/

Part 3
Kennedy was so much against any military option (unknown to almost anyone at the time), that when Bundy gave him two summaries on February 15, one written by Bissell basically restating the old Trinidad Plan, the other written by Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann, a holdover from the Eisenhower time, but a prestigious career diplomat, Bundy added a cover note saying he had put Mann’s memorandum on the bottom because he knew the president was inclined toward Mann’s alternative. This was the famous “windowpane” strategy. Instead of force, Mann proposed that the Castro regime be isolated, politically, diplomatically and economically. Then, his communist policies would run Cuba into the ground for the entire world to see, especially Latin America. The propaganda victory for the US would bP great. Still, Kennedy wavered.
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/05/31/babalu-exclusivethe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history-part-iii/

Part 4
Because of the administration’s obsessive concern with the obnoxious concept of “plausible deniability” (wrongly attributed to the Eisenhower administration when it was Congress itself, while it was debating the law creating the CIA in 1949, which first used the term), the State Department came up with another brilliant idea: to make it appear that a rebellion by the Castro’s FAR had begun on April 15th.
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/06/03/babalu-exclusivethe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history-part-iv/

Part 5
Incidentally, the final raid on the dawn of April 17 almost took place, even after Kennedy ordered the cancellation of all planned raids after the UN situation created by Stevenson and pushed by Rusk. But it seems that now fate took a hand. The Brigade’s B-26 bombers were on the Puerto Cabezas tarmac, getting ready to take off for Cuba in a few hours. It was late Sunday afternoon and General Charles P. Cabell, the CIA’s Deputy Director (Dulles was in Puerto Rico on a previous speaking engagement) had just finished a round of golf and was headed home, but decided to stop by the CIA’s War Room in Washington to check on the operations.
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/06/04/babalu-exclusivethe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history-part-v/

Part 6
The last conspiracy theory remaining is the one that refuses to go away. Indeed, it seems that it becomes more entrenched with each passing year. Even some of my close friends share this belief. That the CIA—intentionally—planned and executed the Bay of Pigs invasion to fail, with the hidden purpose of consolidating the Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro’s regime. This is an article of faith for all true believers.
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/06/05/babalu-exclusivethe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history-part-vi/

Part 7
Then, who was most responsible for the invasion’s defeat? It should be obvious, but it is still not, after 52 years. It was the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was not temperamentally fit to be president; he did not even want it, except for his father’s pressure on him since his older brother Joe had died in a WWI accident. He was an undistinguished Congressman and Senator from Massachusetts when he ran for president in 1960.
http://www.babalublog.com/2013/06/06/babalu-exclusivethe-bay-of-pigs-in-defense-of-truth-and-history-part-vii-conclusion/