[FredZarguna]

Eisenhower did not advise Kennedy on the Bay of Pigs. He handed an invasion plan drawn up by Dulles for which Cuban expats had been training for months in Central America and told Kennedy to either do it or drop it. That was the extent of his "advice." Kennedy felt he was handed a fait accompli, and when his senior advisers signed off on the deal he decided to go ahead with it, but to involve the US as minimally as possible. Early on, some Kennedy people tried to blame Eisenhower for the debacle, and to his credit Kennedy told them to stop it--it was, after all, his call not to provide the support requested by his military advisers, which had little to do with Eisenhower's planning.

[justshutupandtakeit]

That sounds about right. Though just exactly who pulled back the air cover is still somewhat vague. McGeorge Bundy seems to come to mind. But of course having all the CIA principals out of town while this was going down did not help matters either.