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To: junkbond; gaijin

Lost in the weeds.

Who are the two directors fired by JFK?


10 posted on 05/23/2019 8:36:18 AM PDT by ptsal
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“Who are the two directors fired by JFK?”

One was Allan Dulles (a real skunk in our history, if you read up on him).

I’m assuming Bissell might have been another (though I don’t think he was head of the Agency).


16 posted on 05/23/2019 8:43:23 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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After surfing the ultimate authority, I found an answer.


In spite of vigorous rebuttals by CIA management of the findings, CIA Director Allen Dulles, CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell were all forced to resign by early 1962.[86]

In later years, the CIA's behavior in the event became the prime example cited for the psychology paradigm known as groupthink syndrome.[103]

Further study shows that among various components of groupthink analyzed by Irving Janis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion followed the structural characteristics that led to an irrational decision making in foreign policy pushed by deficiency in impartial leadership.[188]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
17 posted on 05/23/2019 8:46:59 AM PDT by ptsal
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