In the midst of this reevaluation of the anti-Castro plan, Dulles and Bissell traveled to Florida on November 18 to meet with President-elect Kennedy and brief him on the operation. In Dulles’s account, Kennedy said that “if Mr. Dulles believed it to be in the U.S. interest to proceed with the project, he had no objection.” But what was Kennedy assenting to? The project was in flux, expanding from an infiltration and sabotage operation into a full-scale invasion. Kennedy’s presidency would clearly be shaped by Eisenhower’s decision on Cuba.
