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    The Bay of Pigs (Spanish: Bahía de los Cochinos) is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in...
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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)...
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    The Bay of Pigs Museum, also known as the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library, is the official museum in memory of the Bay of Pigs Invasion's Brigade 2506...
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    Kennedy's betrayal (category History of Miami)
    The notion of Kennedy's betrayal is a certain perspective of the Bay of Pigs Invasion which supposes that President Kennedy's refusal to give proper air...
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    Playa Girón (category Beaches of Cuba)
    east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located in the province of Matanzas, on the southern coast of Cuba. It is part of the municipality...
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    Félix Rodríguez (soldier) (category American people of Cuban descent)
    Activities Division, known for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the execution of communist revolutionary Che Guevara as well as his close...
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  • Bay of Pigs is a board wargame designed and published by Jim Bumpas in 1976 that simulates the CIA-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961 that planned to overthrow...
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  • Brigade 2506 (category Aftermath of the Cuban Revolution)
    Bay of Pigs". CNN. Susan Candiotti & Garrick Utley (2001-04-17). "Remembering the Bay of Pigs invasion". CNN. Oscar Corral (2006-04-20). "Bay of Pigs...
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  • Bay of Pigs is an EP by Destroyer released on August 19, 2009, on 12" vinyl. Pitchfork described "Bay of Pigs" as starting with "one synth wash over another...
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    Richard M. Bissell Jr. (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
    plane and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He is seen as one of the most important spymasters in CIA history. Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. was the son of Richard Bissell...
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    The Bay of Pigs Monument is a monument in honor of the fallen of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Little Havana, Miami, Florida. Their names are engraved on...
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    Operation Mongoose (category Presidency of John F. Kennedy)
    William King Harvey at the CIA and went into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Operation Mongoose was a secret program against Cuba that aimed...
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    Manuel Artime (category CIA agents convicted of crimes)
    member of the rebel army of Fidel Castro but later was the political leader of Brigade 2506 land forces in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in...
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  • book in 1972, which was revised in 1982. Janis used the Bay of Pigs disaster (the failed invasion of Castro's Cuba in 1961) and the Japanese attack on Pearl...
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    a month after the Bay of Pigs, and the State Department endorsed the proposal... In early November, six months after the Bay of Pigs, JFK authorized the...
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    authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S...
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  • José Miguel Battle Sr. (category People convicted of racketeering)
    the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow the communist Cuban regime in 1961. He later became the nominal leader and founder of The Corporation...
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  • Grayston Lynch (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    and CIA officer. He was one of the two CIA officers who commanded the faction of the army that went to war in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The other agent...
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    Allen Dulles (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
    the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. As a result of the failed invasion of Cuba, Dulles was fired by President John F. Kennedy. Dulles was a member of the...
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    Gusano (slur) (category Culture of Cuba)
    threatened to have he and his family shot. The use of the word was exacerbated by the Bay of Pigs Invasion, when many Cuban dissidents were taken prisoner...
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    Cuba, a failed attempt was made in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. In October 1962, the Kennedy administration...
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    M41 Walker Bulldog (category Cold War tanks of the United States)
    coupled with those of the M41 in general, led to the US Army only adopting the M75 in large numbers. During the prelude to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Central...
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    During the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, which took place between April 15–19, 1961, it became obvious to all concerned that the purpose of the station...
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  • counterintelligence group composed of Cuban exiles. The group was formed to seize control of the Cuban government after the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Operation 40 continued...
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    of the CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Bissell, and approved by the new President John F. Kennedy, the US launched the attempted Bay of Pigs Invasion...
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    behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion...
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  • Jacob Esterline (category People of the Central Intelligence Agency)
    October 16, 1999) was the CIA project director for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Jacob was the son of John Newton Esterline (May 13, 1893 - ?) and Elisabeth...
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  • S.C. § 101 The Bay of Pigs invasion was conducted by Brigade 2506, a group of Cuban exiles recruited and equipped by the CIA as part of a covert operation...
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    Pepe San Román (category CIA agents convicted of crimes)
    was a Cuban military officer and the commander of Brigade 2506 ground troops in the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961. He enlisted in the Cuban...
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  • Alfredo Duran (category Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States)
    member of Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506), a group of Cuban exiles trained by the CIA in preparation for the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba and...
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