A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...

They are, among other absurdities, likening an inconsequential national security conversation that caused no harm to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

The Bay of Pigs fiasco prompts an aide's memo Morley said Schlesinger's memo provides the “origin story” of mutual mistrust between Kennedy and the CIA.

director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century" The Bay of Pigs fiasco prompts an aide's memo Morley said Schlesinger's memo provides the “origin ...