 Once Kennedy refused to be blackmailed by the CIA into a full-scale invasion of Cuba at the time of the Bay of Pigs, De Gaulle's inter-administration war erupted. The clandestine service of the CIA pushed for an invasion of Cuba. President Kennedy declined and went on to fire the Director of Central Intelligence, Alan Dulles, who reemerges as the central figure in the Warren Commission. We all know that. Throughout Kennedy's brief presidency, the CIA treated him as an enemy.