;s murder.Another example of CIA disobedience other than its actions in Vietnam were itsactions taken in response to Cuba. In September of 1963, long after President Kennedyhad ordered that all attempts of the assassination of Fidel Castro be stopped, members ofthe CIA staff approved a plan to kill the Cuban dictator. The CIA also continued itssabotage missions on Cuba without presidential authorization, long after Kennedy hadordered them to stop. One man that had greatly linked the CIA with the assassination ofJFK was Atlee Phillips. He was the propaganda chief for the Bay of Pigs Invasion, whichwas a big failure and embarrassment to the CIA, and three months before the assassinationhe had been seen with Oswald in New Orleans, Louisiana. A possibility is the CIA hadnoticed the growing tension between President Kennedy and itself and predicted thatKennedy may do something to drastically limit the power of the CIA. In order to preventKennedy from doing this, the CIA had maybe seen it fit to do away with the currentPresident, him, and get a new one that was more supportive of the CIA and its actions andmore lenient towards its decisions.Another possibility is that anti-Castro Cubans were responsible for theassassination of JFK. Anti-Castro Cubans had been furious with Kennedy over the failureof the Bay of Pigs invasion. They believed that if not for him, the mission would havebeen a success, and Castro would now longer be in power. At the time it was thought thatthey had forgiven him because he ransomed 1,200 captured exile troops from Castro, butit is still a strong possibility that some anti-Castro Cubans never forgave him for the failureat the Bay of Pigs. Another reason that many of the anti-Castro Cubans were angry withKennedy was for his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his shutting down of theirpara-military training camps. Another reason that this is a good possibility is because theanti-Castro Cubans were exc...
