Editing Dean Rusk (section)

===Military plans===
The Undersecretary of State, Chester Bowles, wrote to Rusk in late March 1961, saying he heard rumors that Cuban emigres were being trained by the CIA for an invasion of Cuba, which he asked Rusk to stop, saying it was against the rules of the Organization of American States.<ref>Langguth, A.J. ''Our Vietnam'' 2000 p.125</ref> Rusk did not pass on the memo to Kennedy nor did he himself speak out against the Bay of Pigs invasion, even when his own military experience had convinced him that a single brigade "did not stand a snowball's chance in hell" of toppling's Cuba's government.<ref>Langguth, A.J. ''Our Vietnam'' 2000 p.127</ref>

In April 1961, when a proposal to send 100 more American military advisers to South Vietnam to make a total of 800 appeared before Kennedy, Rusk argued for acceptance even as he noted that it violated the Geneva Accords of 1954 (which the United States had not signed, but promised to abide by), which limited the number of foreign military personnel in Vietnam to 700 at a time.<ref name="Vietnam: A History250">Karnow, Stanley ''Vietnam: A History'', 1983 p.250</ref> Rusk stated that International Control Commission consisting of diplomats from India, Poland and Canada which was supposed to enforce the Geneva Accords should not be informed of the deployment and the advisers "be placed in varied locations to avoid attention".<ref name="Vietnam: A History250" /> Rusk favored a hawkish line on Laos. Kennedy decided otherwise, on the grounds that Laos had no modern airfields and there was a risk of Chinese intervention.<ref>Langguth, A.J. ''Our Vietnam'' 2000 p.&nbsp;124</ref>  Rusk opened the Geneva conference on neutralizing Laos and predicted to Kennedy that the negotiations would fail.<ref>Langguth, A.J. ''Our Vietnam'' 2000 p.132</ref>

Rusk continued his Rockefeller Foundation interest in aiding [[developing nation]]s and also supported low tariffs to encourage world trade.