Gordon M. Goldstein

Gordon M. Goldstein
Gordon M. Goldstein is the author of Lessons in Disaster: George Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam. He is a scholar of international affairs who has served as an international security adviser to the United Nations secretary-general and as a Wayland Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein
Kennedy, Bundy and the Bay of Pigs
By: Gordon M. Goldstein | April 17, 2011
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The first major foreign policy decision in which Bundy participated became the signature failure of the entire Kennedy administration.

The new administration inherited a covert plan to topple the Cuban leader Fidel Castro with an invasion force of 1,300 exiles being trained in Guatemala.

It was a CIA plot actively incubated under the Eisenhower administration—which had recently broken off diplomatic relations with Cuba—and then presented to the new president for execution within the first months of his administration.

The code name for the invasion was “Operation Zapata.”

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