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The Perfect Failure

The Perfect Failure
Kennedy, Eisenhouwer and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs
by Trumbull Higgins

I have always wondered about the history and surrounding factors of the Bay of Pigs
invasion in Cuba. I lived in Miami for seven years and have always wondered why Cubans had an air of entitlement, that United States owes them something. The explanation that I was given, when I felt comfortable asking about this, was that the United States failed them. That for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba the United States led the Cuban exiles into a battle they could not win. They felt great resentment that the United States refused to assist them once in Cuba and were therefore left at President Fidel Castro's mercy. Now, after I have read The Perfect Failure- Kennedy, Eisenhower and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs by Trumbull Higgins I can understand the basis for this type of thinking and resentment.
Trumbull Higgins' book is very interesting and complex. Higgins' account of the process......


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