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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provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba. The bay is historically important for the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. The...
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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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Playa Girón (category Beaches of Cuba)
seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime...
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Radio Swan (section Bay of Pigs invasion broadcasts)
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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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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Kennedy's betrayal (category History of Miami)
the Bay of Pigs Invasion that supposes that President Kennedy's refusal to give proper air support to Brigade 2506 caused the defeat of the invasion. This...
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Gusano (slur) (category Culture of Cuba)
threatened to have him 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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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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José Miró Cardona (category Ambassadors of Cuba to Spain)
the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. It was decided that Miró would become the provisional President of Cuba depending upon the success of the invasion, and...
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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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José Miguel Battle Sr. (category People convicted of racketeering)
unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow the communist Cuban government under Fidel Castro in 1961. He later became the nominal leader and founder of The...
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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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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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Lockheed U-2 (section Bay of Pigs Invasion)
charge of both the U-2 program and CIA covert operations, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion, had been a good friend of Land and Killian, but such use of the...
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The Good Shepherd (film) (category Films set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
officer, discovers a mole in his department following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The film delves into Wilson's complex life, starting from...
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Betrayal thesis (category Cold War history of Cuba)
of betraying the promises of the Cuban Revolution. Later that month, with Kennedy's approval, the Bay of Pigs Invasion would commence. After the Bay of...
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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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Grayston Lynch (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
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 was William...
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Vienna summit (section The Bay of Pigs Invasion)
situation at length at the Vienna Summit. The American-facilitated Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961 also rocked Khrushchev and Kennedy's relationship. On...
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in Cuba, and it participated in the planning and carrying out of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. In the 1960s, Operation 40 was said to have expanded its mission...
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few of these original Cuban exiles were involved in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion which failed to topple Castro. After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962...
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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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was part of the Bay of Pigs Invasion operation, but five more CIA teams were sent, the last apprehended on a rooftop within rifle range of Castro, at...
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E. Howard Hunt (category Members of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President)
coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration's...
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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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Erneido Oliva (category People convicted of treason against Cuba)
Cuban-American who was the deputy commander of Brigade 2506 land forces in the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961. In 1954 Oliva was commissioned...
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Distinguished Intelligence Cross (category Awards and decorations of the Central Intelligence Agency)
posthumously for the Bay of Pigs invasion William F. Buckley John T. Downey Richard Fecteau Wade C. Gray, posthumously for the Bay of Pigs invasion James Monroe...
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Enrique Ruíz-Williams (category Assassination of John F. Kennedy)
who was second in command of the heavy weapons battalion of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. During the invasion, Williams unsuccessfully...
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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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