NSA – Cuba: The Bay of Pigs Invasion 65 Years Later

On 65th Anniversary, Archive Posts Selection of Key CIA and 
White House Records on Paramilitary Assault and Aftermath

JFK Considered Dismantling CIA After Failed Invasion

As U.S. Again Threatens Cuba, Bay of Pigs a “Cautionary History”

Washington D.C., April 16, 2026 – In the wake of the failed CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy considered reconfiguring and even dismantling the intelligence agency, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 65th anniversary of the paramilitary assault on Cuba. The President tasked his White House aide, Arthur Schlesinger, to examine “the British intelligence set up” to determine “what of value there might be for our own thinking about CIA reorganization,” according to a little-known secret memorandum to Kennedy dated a month after attack. “What is of special interest in the British experience is, not the division between intelligence and operations,” Schlesinger advised the President, “but the means by which the clandestine service is kept under continuous policy control.”

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https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba-cuban-missile-crisis/2026-04-16/cuba-bay-pigs-invasion-65-years-later

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