The Bay of Pigs

CRC first learned about these press bulletins that they had supposedly written by listening to them get read over the radio. They got angry at that, and then told that they could not leave their barracks. A CIA official named Dick Drain, masquerading as a colonel for them to join chiefs, flew down to brief them on the changing situation on the ground. Under pressure from the CIA, JFK allowed the military one more bombing run on the morning of April 19th to provide labanigata cover to evacuate. And yet another operational fuck-up, the bombers, which were piloted by members of the Alabama Air National Guard, missed their escort rendezvous.