... responsibility for the operation was left to one of his deputies, Richard Bissell. In an intelligence community geared mainly for European operations against the USSR, both men lacked experience in Latin American affairs. Those in charge of Operation Pluto based this new operation on the success of the Guatemalan adventure, but the situation in Cuba was much different than that in ... invasion as well. Tad Szulc's report in the April twenty-second edition of The New York Times says it all, . . . "As has been an open secret in Florida and Central America for months, the CIA planned, coor...

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