The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [515]
496 “morale reasons”: One of the participants in Cuban Study Group, probably Dulles, admitted this after the invasion, memorandum for the record, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1961, “Subject: Taylor Report,” FRUS.
497 “to give this activity …”: Wyden, p. 122.
497 Rusk was particularly upset: ibid., p. 148.
498 “he still wished …”: General Gray notes, March 15, 1961, “Subject: Taylor Report,” FRUS.
498 “I hear you don’t think …”: ATD, p. 259. See also RKIHOW, p. 242.
498 “entrenched Cold War ways”: RKHT, p. 443.
499 “to deny any such CIA activity”: memorandum for the president, “Subject: Cuba: Political, Diplomatic, and Economic Problems,” April 10, 1961, president’s office files, box 65, JFKPL. This document also may be found at www.parascope.com under “Foreign Ops” and in National Security Files, Country Series, Cuba, Genoma, FRUS.
499 “When lies must be”: ibid.
500 Over the weekend: Jack Hawkins, “Classified Disaster: The Bay of Pigs Operation Was Doomed by Presidential Indecisiveness and Lack of Commitment,” National Review, December 31, 1996, and LL interview with Colonel Jack Hawkins.
500 “Bissell said he felt…”: LL interview with Colonel Jack Hawkins.
501 “to finance anti-Castro …”: CIA Targets Fidel, p. 42. 501 Varona had no more: ibid., pp. 27-28, 32.
501 “felt it was …”: Theodore C. Sorensen, KLOH.
501 “The minute I land …”: Richard Goodwin, p. 174.
502 Suspicious reporters: Kornbluh, p. 304.
503 Steve Smith, a weekend guest, thought: Wyden, p. 194.
503 vowed that if: LL interviews with Grayston Lynch and Roberto San Roman.
503 The UN ambassador was full: CY, p. 115.
503 “If Cuba now proves …”: from: New York to: Secretary of State, no. 2892, April 16, 1961, 6:00 P.M., NSC files, box 40A, JFKPL.
503 no longer be able: Deputy Director of the CIA (Cabell) to General Maxwell D. Taylor, memorandum, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1961, “Subject: Taylor Report,” FRUS.
503 “regularly harassed …”: Joseph Alsop, KLOH.
503-04 “He used to drive him …”: John Bartlow Martin interview with Robert Kennedy, May 14, 1964, ASP.
504 “who never quite …”: RKIHOW, p. 205.
504 “I’m going down …”: Senator Wayne Morse, KLOH. 504 “overriding considerations”: memorandum for the record, Washington, D.C., Subject: Taylor report, May 4, 1961, FRUS.
504 Kennedy told Feldman: LL interview with Myer Feldman.
505 Rusk agreed: Deputy Director of the CIA (Cabell) to General Maxwell D. Taylor, memorandum, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1961, “Subject: Taylor Report,” FRUS.
505 During that first day: Kornbluh, p. 314.
506 “I don’t think…”: quoted in RKIHOW, p. 242.
506 involved with clandestine aspects: CIA, memorandum, Washington, D.C., January 19, 1961, Special Group meeting, Cuba, FRUS.
506 “The real question …”: President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1961, FRUS.
506 Bobby cautioned all those: Wyden, p. 289.
507 “Can anti-Castro forces…”: Chief of Naval Operations (Burke) to Commander in Chief, Atlantic (Dennison), telegram, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1961, 3:23 P.M., Naval Historical Center, area files, Bumpy Road materials, FRUS.
507 “nobody knew…”: memorandum of conversation, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1961, Naval Historical Center, area files, Bumpy Road materials, FRUS. 507 “pressing for every…”: quoted in Wyden, p. 267. 507 Cleveland thought: ibid.
507 the president had allowed: For testimony on the way the Joint Chiefs were kept out of the crucial policy loop, see General Earle Wheeler, KLOH.
507 “The president is going …”: memorandum of conversation, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1961, Naval Historical Center, area files, Bumpy Road materials, FRUS.
507 had to take down: Captain William C. Chapman, USN retired, “The Bay of Pigs: The View from Prifly,” paper presented at the Ninth Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy, October 29, 1989, and LL interview with William C. Chapman.
508 “There’s no doubt…”: LL