Kennedy's betrayal

[4] On the second day into the invasion, Kennedy ordered the Alabama Air National Guard to halt its bombings of Cuba.

[5][3] After the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Kennedy briefly established Operation Mongoose to organize clandestine missions against Cuba.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy agreed with Khruschev that the United States would not sponsor any more exile incursions into Cuba.

Journalist Haynes Johnson interviewed many of these veterans and published a book in 1964 The Bay of Pigs: The Leaders' Story of Brigade 2506.

Historian Michael Bustamante has claimed that the Kennedy's betrayal narrative only became popular after the United States started reducing support for Cuban exile militancy in the mid-1960s.

[8] In the 2015 book Latinos and the 2012 Election, political scientist Gabriel R. Sanchez proposes the idea that the Kennedy's betrayal narrative may explain the Republican affiliation of early Cuban exiles, but that later Cuban immigrants are unconcerned with the legacy of the Bay of Pigs invasion, instead making political decisions based on recent policies regarding family travel to Cuba and remittances.

Douglas A-4 Skyhawks from the USS Essex purportedly flying sorties over combat areas during the invasion. The halting of bombings from these planes forms the central argument that Kennedy betrayed Brigade 2506.