Eisenhower and the CIA

My uncle was skeptical about that, and he later found out that it wasn't true that Castro was enormously popular in Cuba. My uncle refused to get allowed the Navy to transport the Bay of Pigs. So how do they get over there? They took United Fruit and Standard Oil, you know, provided boats so they could go land over there. And so when they got stuck on the beach, my uncle walks out of a meeting and he said, I want to take the CIA and shatter it into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind. He spent three years fighting against his own military and intelligence apparatus and ultimately died in that never.

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