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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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The plan was developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Eisenhower administration and anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion.
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The invasion was launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.
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In the 1950s, a young, charismatic Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro led a guerrilla army and the plan was to destroy as many of Castro’s combat aircraft as possible and invade the beach.
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Kennedy was concerned about the location of the invasion.
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. Kennedy was briefed on a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) developed during the Eisenhower administration to train Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. The plan anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion.
The Bay of Pigs | JFK Library
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States. It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government. The operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure influenced relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
Bay of Pigs Invasion - Wikipedia
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. Since 1959, officials at the U.S. State Department and the CIA had attempted to remove Castro.
Bay of Pigs Invasion - Definition, Outcome & JFK - HISTORY
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion and its Aftermath, April 1961–October 1962. A left-wing revolution in Cuba had ended in 1959 with the ouster of President Fulgencio Batista and the establishment…
Milestones: 1961–1968 - Office of the Historian
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