many related and diverse activities. I was the chief of a unit responsible for providing all-source collateral information to the photo interpreters as well as managing collation and processing of intelligence data. . . . (xi).
The author authoritatively reviews the background of intelligence leading up to the missile crisis, but the problems with his account begin when he whitewashes the role of intelligence in deceiving President Kennedy as to the chances of success in the U.S.-led Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. Brugioni utterly fails to acknowledge the well-documented facts of the CIA's effort, through the creation of false data, to force Kennedy into using American military planes to bomb Cuba in support of the anti-Castro Cuban forces. He blatantly ignores the fact that Kennedy, enraged over the CIA's deception, forces the resignati
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