e exiles took place towards the end of Eisenhower's term as President of the United States. He took very few steps in the direction of having the exiles return to Cuba to overthrow Castro. The training took place when President Eisenhower was leaving office and President-elect Kennedy was coming into office. Upon coming into office, President Kennedy was told of the training of Cuban exiles in Guatemala by CIA director Allen Dulles. Kennedy gave his approval for the training of the exiles to continue. He later went to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to evaluate the situation. They came to the conclusion that even though the CIA was training the exiles they wouldn't have a very good chance of succeeding in overthrowing the dictator of Cuba. They felt that even to have a chance of success they would need the people still living in Cuba, who were unhappy with the government, to rebel at the same time they were to come ashore (Think Quest). After Kennedy had a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff the President Guatemala ordered the CIA and the Cuban exiles out of his country. Kennedy was forced to make a quick decision. The president was then informed that the Cubans were receiving a shipment of fighter crafts from the Soviets. After this President Kennedy got this news he gave the green light for the mission, but had the right to cancel the mission with 24 hours notice (think quest). A few days before the actual invasion took place there was a series of bombings took place on strategic military bases in Cuba. The bombing was rather unsuccessful. They were supposed to take out the Cuban fighter planes, but only took out a few planes. To conceal the identity of the B-26 bombers the United States were using to drop the bombs the planes were painted to resemble planes in the Cuban air force (bay of Pigs Invasion). The idea was for the planes to look like defective Cuban pilots that turned against their government. When the plane...
