Boiling down what the Senator has said. he says that the CIA sold the President a bill of goods that was defective. that the CIA had a plan that did not work and it convinced the President to go ahead with it. The late President John F. Kennedy was a fine statesman. with the soul of a poet and the heart of a lion. He never backed away to escape responsibility. He took full responsibility for the complete fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. Preparations and plans for the invasion had started before President Kennedy took office. There had been a training program for Cuban refugees. Those people were getting impatient and there was a possibility of their being disbanded and the whole undertaking being abandoned. The President consulted with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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