The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
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The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one
of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The blame for the
failure of the operation falls directly in the lap of the Central
Intelligence Agency and a young president and his advisors. The fall out
from the invasion c ....
Middle of paper
.... and Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de
Cuba were fired upon. Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven
people were killed at other sites on the island. Two of the B-26s left Cuba
and flew to Miami, apparently to defect to the United States. The Cuban
Revolutionary Council, the government in exile, in New York City released a
statement saying that the bombings in Cuba were ". . . carried out by
'Cubans inside Cuba' who were 'in contact with' the top command of the
Revolutionary Cou ....
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