Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Archival video of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the reaction among countries is shown. On April 17, 1961, a force of more than 1,400 CIA-trained ...

More than 50 years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, the Central Intelligence Agency and scholars are battling over the release of a secret document that could challenge assumptions ...

Kennedy landed on the Bay of Pigs. They encountered and swiftly dealt ... By the 20th April the invasion had failed. Four American airmen along with a 114 Cuban exiles of Brigade 2506 were dead.

Shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, a top CIA official told an investigative commission that the Soviet Union had somehow learned the exact date of the amphibious ...

Unsurprisingly, rather than go through the trouble of concocting their own propaganda ... on Monday that Washington's invasion of Cuba in Bay of Pigs was 'an ill-conceived military venture ...

But for those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist dictatorship ...

MIAMI – Veterans from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion are celebrating 50 years since their release from Cuba. The first planeload of prisoners arrived at Homestead Air Force Base on Dec. 23 ...

Former CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic discusses the planning of the Bay of Pigs invasion and what went wrong when it was executed. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

The next day they were awakened by the sound of gunfire. The Bay of Pigs invasion had begun. “We were caught in the middle of the fighting between the mercenaries and Cuban forces. Planes were ...

The first word came from the UPI listening post in Miami. Unknown Speaker: "An invasion force landed in south central Cuba this morning, some 90 miles from Havana, and is fighting its way towards ...

According to Jim Rasenberger's history of the Bay of Pigs invasion ... the CIA's invasion mastermind, that within six months, radio propaganda would produce "the proper psychological climate ...