so prevalent in the past 25 years. In his book, Bay of Pigs, Wyden pointed out that Richard Bissell, Deputy Director for Plans in the CIA and chief architect of the invasion, was a Yale intellectual whose previous claim to fame within the agency was the development of the U-2 spy plane and reconnaissance satellites (11). Bissell was not an individual who had developed a taste for covert operations in his early years; in fact, he had no personal experience in covert operations (12). Unfortunately, Wyden never developed this idea into a discussion of whether or not this lack of experience contributed to the poor planning and ultimate failure of the operation.
Similarly, Nixon, Eisenhower, and Kennedy were all proponents of the plan, as well as others to assassinate Castro. Few serious readers would place any of these individuals among the cast of history's famous psychopaths, yet all three approved the plan. Wyden left the reader with no doubt that Kennedy was fully aware of the planning from the moment he won the election. In fact, Kennedy's hand
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