{"id":2090,"date":"1960-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1960-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2090"},"modified":"1960-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1960-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"15012201960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/12\/20\/15012201960\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/20\/1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;DEC 20, 1960: Admiral Robert Dennison, the Commander in Chief Atlantic (CINCLANT), sends the CIA 119 questions about the CIA operation. His questions imply that planning has been wholly inadequate for the invasion. Only twelve are answered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,&#8221; The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;DEC 20, 1960: Admiral Robert Dennison, the Commander in Chief Atlantic (CINCLANT), sends the CIA 119 questions about the CIA operation. His questions imply that planning has been wholly inadequate for the invasion. Only twelve are answered.\u201d &#8220;The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,&#8221; The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/12\/20\/15012201960\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 12\/20\/1960<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2014,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/03\/25\/743251960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2090,"position":0},"title":"3\/25\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 25, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"LATE MARCH 1960: David Atlee Phillips, a CIA contract employee who until recently had maintained a public-relations company in Havana, is selected by the CIA as chief of propaganda for the Cuba project. At operation headquarters in Washington, Phillips is told that the Cuba project will go by the Guatemala\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2073,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/10\/31\/13310311960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2090,"position":1},"title":"10\/31\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"October 31, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"OCT 31, 1960: Cable from CIA Headquarters to senior agency officer in Guatemala outlines plan for amphibious invasion of Cuba by assault force of at least 1,500 men who will receive conventional military training.\u201d \"The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,\" The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu","rel":"","context":"In &quot;quotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2010,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/03\/15\/693151960\/","url_meta":{"origin":2090,"position":2},"title":"3\/15\/1960","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 15, 1960","format":false,"excerpt":"\"MAR 1960: The CIA begins training 300 guerrillas, initially in the U.S. and the Canal Zone. 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