The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington by Gregg Herken

Author:Gregg Herken [Herken, Gregg]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780385353045
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

AT THE CIA, the earnest hopes that Graham’s friend Frank Wisner placed in the New Frontier had gradually yielded to disillusionment on both sides, following the dismal failure of Project Zapata. In a letter to his former boss, Richard Helms confessed to Wisner that the agency remained in “shell shock” since the debacle at the Bay of Pigs: “I do not have to paint a picture for you of the gloom and bitterness which have pervaded these halls. The former is the obvious reaction to a failure, the latter results from what many of us feel to be the high-handed manner with which the activity was mounted”—a veiled reference to Dick Bissell, Helms’s nemesis and the Cuban invasion’s chief architect. On May 1, 1961, Wisner replied to Helms’s letter in a cryptic handwritten note:

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