Eventually. the president conceded the intelligencegathering nature of the flight. but refused to apologize to the Soviets. and Khrushchev stormed out of the summit meeting. We also know now. but did not know then. that in March 1960. President Eisenhower gave the CIA authorization to begin training Cuban refugees for an invasion of Cuba. which a year later. at the beginning of John Kennedys administration. ended in complete failure at the Bay of Pigs. Had a congressional intelligence committee existed at that time. or had congressional leaders been at all consulted in advance one suspects that cautionary warnings would have been raised that could have saved the administration from international embarrassment. By the end of Eisenhowers second term a sense of congressional disenchantment with the administrations foreign policies had developed.
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