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 ...

"We thought, 'This is the invasion boys, be careful ... who has written extensively on the Bay of Pigs, drawing heavily on declassified CIA documents. Image caption, Gregorio Moreira still ...

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s April 24 op-ed column, "Bush's Thousand Days," omitted mention of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the role it played in the Cuban missile crisis. Intelligence ...

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 ...

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 ...

OCNER [email protected] On a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon, the city of Miami unveiled a statue commemorating the 62nd anniversary this month of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the one and last ...

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 ...

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.