“1,400 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles would land at the Bay of Pigs…It was an unmitigated disaster…Kennedy had learned the hard way not to blindly trust the advice of his decorated military and ...

The Central Intelligence Agency is promoting a silver coin that commemorates “an anticipated (but never realized) Bay of Pigs victory,” which raises a number of questions: 1) when did the CIA ...

Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion - the failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba - the island continues to celebrate its victory while the invaders who survived live on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students in the Honors College are gaining a personal and historical understanding of the 1961 operation to liberate communist Cuba through a new course titled “The Secret War: Brigade 2506 and the ...

Sorensen relayed to President John Kennedy a request that a “distinguished author” be allowed to see the files on the U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion that had ended in disaster about a ...

In 2016, then-presidential candidate Trump received the endorsement of a group of Bay of Pigs veterans, who also presented him with a framed, hand-painted image of the Shield of Brigade 2506 ...

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Although it took place more than 60 years ago, Eliecer Jiménez-Almeida believes the Bay of Pigs invasion – the failed 1961 CIA-sponsored military operation to overthrow the Fidel Castro government in ...