Bay of Pigs Invasion
The April 15 – April 19, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (also known in Cuba as the Playa Girón after the beach in the Bay of Pigs where the landing took place) was an unsuccessful United States-planned and funded attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba. An attempt to overthrow the government of [...]
Tagged 1961, Allen W Dulles, Bay of Pigs, Charles Cabell, CIA, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Operation Pluto, Operation Zapata, Richard Bissell