{"id":2535,"date":"1961-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1961-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2535"},"modified":"1961-06-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1961-06-15T00:00:00","slug":"2386151961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/06\/15\/2386151961\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/15\/1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[President John F.] Kennedy appointed a special commission of inquiry following the disaster. It was known as the Taylor Committee, under Maxwell Taylor, the general who was one of Kennedy\u2019s principal military advisors. The Taylor Committee rendered its report in June 1961. The conclusion of the report was that the U.S. couldn\u2019t live with this Cuban revolution as a neighbor over the long haul. We should develop new and more effective operations and activities to weaken and destroy the revolution.\u201d [<em>The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><em>Philip Agee, \u201cA Century of War and Bad Faith; Cuba History, and the CIA,\u201d Prevailing Winds Magazine, March 9, 1994, Page 29<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[President John F.] Kennedy appointed a special commission of inquiry following the disaster. It was known as the Taylor Committee, under Maxwell Taylor, the general who was one of Kennedy\u2019s principal military advisors. The Taylor Committee rendered its report in June 1961. The conclusion of the report was that the U.S. couldn\u2019t live with this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/06\/15\/2386151961\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 6\/15\/1961<\/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-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2104,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/01\/11\/1641111961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":0},"title":"1\/11\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 11, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"JAN 11, 1961: Ambassador [Whiting] Willauer representing the State Department and Tracy Barnes of CIA discuss with representatives of the Joint Staff the overall problem of effecting the overthrow of Castro. This is the first time the JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] at the working level is informed of the\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":2558,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/03\/18\/2293181961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":1},"title":"3\/18\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 18, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"MAR 18, 1961: Richard Bissell [CIA Deputy Director of Plans] sends \u2018Jim Noble,\u2019 the last CIA station chief in Havana, to Miami to pull together the Cuban exile leadership into a unified body. The Cubans are summoned to the Skyways Motel where Noble's Spanish speaking assistant Jim Can tells them:\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":2110,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/01\/18\/1701181961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":2},"title":"1\/18\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 18, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"JAN 18, 1961: Ambassador [Whiting] Willauer reports to Under Secretary of State Merchant that \u2018the Group, DOD [Department of Defense], CIA [Central Intelligence Agency], and ARA [American Rental Association] (to a limited extent)\u2019 have updated DOD on \u2018current thinking on the program for Cuba,\u2019 and \u2018after concluding this [they] assumed\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":2557,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/03\/17\/2283171961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":3},"title":"3\/17\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 17, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"MAR 17, 1961: The New York Times reports that in the coming weeks simultaneous invasions will take place at different points in Cuba.\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":2105,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/01\/12\/1651121961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":4},"title":"1\/12\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 12, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"JAN 12, 1961: The Cuban government arrests a group of internal resistance forces, including their commander, Ramon Carvajal, for conspiring against the state.\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":2102,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/01\/06\/162161961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":5},"title":"1\/6\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"January 6, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"JAN 6, 1961: The State Department says it doubts newspaper reports that [Fidel] Castro is planning to let the Soviet Union establish missile bases in Cuba.\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":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}