Two assignments

For this assignment, instead of looking at an intelligence problem, you will look at an intelligence failure. Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Please note, that your topic does not have to focus on US intelligence, it can look at the failure of another country's intelligence agencies. Also note, that this is not intended to be a critique of any presidential administration past or present. Instead this is an analysis of the analytical pitfalls that led to the intelligence failure. This paper should include the following elements:

· Title page

· Introduction with strong thesis statement

· Background and analysis of the intelligence failure

· Assessment of which analytical techniques learned in this class could have prevented the failure: Analysis of Competing Hypotheses

· Conclusion

· Bibliography

Friedman, Uri. (2012). "The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures." Foreign Policy, (Jan 3).  https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/03/the-ten-biggest-american-intelligence-failures/

General Requirements 1. Document Format: a. MS Word document b. One-inch (1") margins c. Times New Roman font d. Twelve (12) pitch e. Double spaced f. This assignment should be 6-8 pages. This does not include your cover page and bibliography. g. No pictures H. italicize all journal titles and use title case for all titles 2. Citation Format: The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). As stated in the Academic Integrity Briefings, information taken directly from another source must be placed in quotations and cited following the CMS format contained in the week one "lessons" folder. You must cite all other information from your sources, even if you do not quote directly. DIRECT QUOTING SHOULD BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM. 3. Grading is based on the assignment rubric. 4. You must use 5 scholarly sources in completing this assignment.

Sources:

Barrett, David. “The Bay of Pigs Fiasco and the Kennedy Administration’s Off-the-Record Briefings for Journalists.” Journal of cold war studies 21, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 3–26.

Carroll, John S. Bay of Pigs: How Groupthink Led to a Military Failure, n.d. https://hstalks.com/bm/3782/

Chapman, Robert. “Revisiting the Bay of Pigs: Jim Rasenberger:The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of PigsScribner, New York, 2011, 460 P., $32.00.” International journal of intelligence and counterintelligence 25, no. 1 (March 2012): 178–184.

Domínguez, Jorge. “The Bay of Pigs ‐ by Jones, Howard.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 31, no. 4 (October 2012): 535–537.