From the time, Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba tensions ran high between the Cuban government and the United States government. Relations between Cuba and the United States grew during Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Not as much during the Eisenhower administration as the Kennedy administration did tensions between between the two countries intensify. Kennedy faced many a different situations as President. He faced such situations like the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Tensions have mounted high for a long time between Cuba and the United States. Towards the end of President Eisenhower's second term he ran into the increasingly strident attacks from the radical Fidel Castro. Eisenhower outwardly ignored the comments made by Castro. Many criticized Eisenhower for provoking and tolerating the comments. Even though he chose to ignore the comments made by the radical Castro he was well aware of the situations that came before him about the happenings of Cuba. The CIA came to him on a few occasions with plans for overthrowing Castro's regime. The CIA came up with the idea of spraying a chemical into the broadcasting room. The plan was thrown out because of its unreliability (M&P 383). They also came up with the idea of poisoning a box of Castro's favorite cigars, enlisting members of an underground criminal syndicate to assassinate Castro, and putting a poisoned pill in Castro's drink (M&P 384). In March of 1960 President Eisenhower asked the CIA to form a facility for the training of the Cuban exiles. The training was to take place in Guatemala in case a future date should come when they wanted to return to their homeland. Eisenhower made it clear that the involvement of the United States in this mission should be kept secret. If it was to become know that the United States was involved in the training of the exiles they might have faced retaliation from the Soviet Union. The training of th...