I told Kennedy we would lose... now Castro tells me how he won Last month, 40 years after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castro invited Arthur Schlesinger - one of President Kennedy's key advisers during the crisis - to Havana, and told him where JFK went wrong

The Sunday Telegraph London | April 8, 2001| | Copyright

In the long annals of United States foreign policy, no fiasco was more complete, no miscarriage more total, than the Central Intelligence Agency's attempted invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Historians have called it "the perfect failure". It has been a lasting blight on the thousand days of John F. Kennedy.

The number of people alive who were actually involved in the Bay of Pigs episode is fast dwindling. But at the end of last month, a number of Cubans and Americans - myself included - who played a part in the events of 40 years ago met in Havana to mark the anniversary.

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