A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State Department control of “all clandestine activities” and breaking up the CIA. The page of Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s memo […]
The release of a 1961 memo outlining President Kennedy's plan to break up the CIA, following the Bay of Pigs invasion, has revived a conspiracy theory suggesting the CIA was involved in his assassination. The memo reveals Kennedy's mistrust of the CIA and proposes shifting control of clandestine activities to the State Department. While some dismiss the theory and maintain Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, others find the newly released material significant and believe more information is still being withheld.
