Circumvention Of Democracy Jfk And The Bay Of Pigs Invasion

The Bay of Pigs invasion bruised the American psyche. In the decades since the 1961 attack on Cuba, scholars and participants have examined the event and found either the CIA, the Eisenhower Administration, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy's advisors, newspaper editors, or imigri Cuban political leaders to blame. With the release of recently declassified CIA documents and a number of first-person accounts of the invasion, the progression of this disaster from idea to invasion to rout is becoming clear. In a study that emphasizes the contemporary documents, statements, and subsequent recollections of the primary actors, Chris Dolejs evaluates the record and tells the story as a series of decisions made from a quickly narrowing set of options. Dolejs tracks the plan through its evolution and finds that the motivating forces changed throughout the plan's life. At different points, bureaucratic, psychological, and political factors took turns pushing the idea to its disastrous fruition.Doljs, Chris is the author of 'Circumvention Of Democracy Jfk And The Bay Of Pigs Invasion', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932133103 and ISBN 1932133100.