Administration Quote by E. Howard Hunt

The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic,…

— Robert Dallek

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

— Robert Dallek

“As a turning point, the Bay of Pigs deserves comparison with 9/11 - a moment that created an opening to pose first-order questions, but…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who…

— Robert Dallek

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

— Pat Buchanan

In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but…

— George Will

“The United States was unwilling to accept the losses required in putting new pressure—other than air bombardment—on the enemy,”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources…

— Kofi Annan

President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more,…

— Mark Shields

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of…

— Kitty Kelley

“The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure…

— Mark Bowden