Bay Of Pigs Intelligence Failure

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Intelligence Failures in the Bay of Pigs
The United States government deemed the Bay of Pigs a complete failure and an embarrassment to the United States (Ruiz, 2016). This is because of both the CIA and the Kennedy administration failed to provide the intelligence and resources needed to sustain the operation. Due to these failures, the invasion teams ran into many problems during the operational phase that caused the operation to fail.
Background
The Bay of Pigs was a plan to overthrow the Cuban president Fidel Castro. But in the end, they surrendered after 114 exiles were killed and about 1,000 were taken prisoner (History.com staff, 2009). The operation was planned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) utilizing a brigade of about 1,400 …show more content…

Intelligence officers and analysts, particularly those who wrote the agency’s estimates, now need to review covert operators’ plans in the future (Lockhart, 2016). The U.S. and its intelligence agencies learned that a countries’ populace will not just rise up and support overthrowing its own government (Mccoy, 2015). But the people of the country will rise up and defend their own country against invaders. (Ruiz, 2016).
How Other Intelligence Could Have Worked
Proper human intelligence would inform the CIA where the Cuban defenses were so the invasion force would have less resistance. Also, if the imagery intelligence provided showed the location of the reefs, some of the boats would not have crashed leading to the deaths of many soldiers. Furthermore, open source intelligence would tell what the Cubans already know about the invasion before it happened. This would lead to proper re-planning to account for bad operational security. In today’s world of intelligence, another way to gain intelligence is through cyber operations.
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Had President Kennedy sent in the reinforcements, it would have allowed the invasion force to keep pushing forward and overtake Castro’s defense forces (Griffith, 2002). On the other hand, the Cuban defense force was well aware of the invasion, and they would have still held a strong front on the beach (Varona, n.d.). In holding the beach, they would have exhausted the invasion force into defeat. Another path to victory was to continue bombing the Cuban airfield. But more airpower might not have overcome the poor imagery intelligence. This could have left the majority of Cuban bombers intact and enabled them to bomb the invasion ships into

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