He did so because he felt the United States could not appear to be behind the invasion ... celebrate the victory at the Bay of Pigs, as the 'triumph over an army of mercenaries and traitors".

Former CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic talks about the goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion on the part of the U.S. and provides an overview of how events unfolded that day. What was the goal of the ...

Fifty years ago Tuesday, a ragtag army of Cuban ... different. The Bay of Pigs operation, for example, was planned in the context of a bipolar global struggle; the United States’ Soviet rivals ...

At the Bay of Pigs Museum and ... such as the army facilitation of things that I ended up sharing with my parents. There were aspects of how the invasion was set up and carried out that were ...

But for those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning ... a retired US Army Colonel and president of the Bay of Pigs Veteran ...

MIAMI – At the height of the Cold War, about 1,500 fighters launched the Bay of Pigs or Bahía de Cochinos invasion of Cuba ... The fighters expected the U.S. Airforce to cover them, but ...

Nothing epitomizes the disastrous Cuba policy of the United States better than the abortive, three-day, failed Bay of Pigs invasion conducted by anti-Castro Cuban exiles in April 1962. In the ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) - For those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was ... a retired US Army Colonel and president of the Bay ...