seemingly inexperienced, particularly in foreign affairs, and so kennedy thought, gosh, i don't want to just get rid of all the people at defense and cia that had been up to snuff on the most modern and recent intelligence information. hence john f. kennedy inherited the bay of pigs invasion plan from the eisenhower administration. >> they had already begun a plan to send a group of cia sponsored cubans into cuba with the thought if they landed on cuban soil, the cuban people would rise up against fidel castro. and jfk somehow early on decided he was going to continue that plan. >> when we landed i was in the last boat to arrive there.