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Bay of Pigs - The Untold Story, by Peter Wyden.
I never fully understood the awful, prestige damaging farce that was until i read this book... the word 'cluster****' was surely invented to describe it.
Even incredibly brilliant guys like Richard Bissell, are capable of extreme stupidity... so intelligent that hubris led him to believe he could somehow effectively control all of the various, independent tentacles on the monster he created.
Certainly dont put all of the blame Kennedy, he was effectively kept in the dark about most of how badly planned it was... the whole thing should be in Richard Bissells lap... he built an operation pieced together with 'bailing wire'.
Great book.
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