Скачать или смотреть Why Kennedy Fired the CIA Director After the Bay of Pigs - The Invasion Eisenhower Left Behind

On April 17th, 1961, John F. Kennedy received a phone call from the Bay of Pigs beach - and realized he had been systematically lied to by the CIA. Drawing on declassified White House records, the Taylor Committee investigation report, and CIA Operation Zapata planning documents, this documentary examines why CIA Director Allen Dulles assured Kennedy the Cuban invasion would succeed when the intelligence showed otherwise, how Deputy Director Richard Bissell designed an operation that required American military intervention Kennedy had explicitly forbidden, and why Kennedy discovered the entire plan was meant to force his hand once the invasion started failing. What happened when a new president realized his intelligence services had manipulated him into approving an operation designed to trap him into war? How did 72 hours of disaster on a Cuban beach lead to the complete purge of CIA leadership? The consequences would reshape presidential authority over intelligence operations for the next six decades.