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Bay of Pigs - College Essays

Bay of Pigs

Patrick Molloy

In April of 1961 the CIA executed a plan to try and overthrow the Castro government in Cuba. This plan was known as The Bay of Pigs invasion. The plan was to start a massive popular uprising against Fidel Castro, unfortunately this plan quickly failed. Throughout American history many plans lead to failure but the Bay of Pigs invasion was said to be “The Perfect Failure.”
The Bay of Pigs invasion was approved by president Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 17, 1960. This allowed the CIA to begin operations to remove the Castro Government from power in Cuba. The plan was to have an invasion force of approximately 1,200 Cuban exiles near the city of Trinidad. The invasion ...

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strikes by defecting Cuban pilots. The CIA gathered, funded, and trained a anti-Castro rebel organization in Florida, the Panama Canal Zone, and Guatemala. The CIA began military training of 300 Cuban foreigns in March of 1960, and in May began broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda over the whole Caribbean station on a small, disputed territory named Sawn Island. The programs were under CIA control, but claimed to be the voice of an authentic Cuban rebel movement without U.S. ties. In September Castro accused the U.S. of operating Radio Swan, in which the U.S. denied.
On April 15, 1961 the first part of the invasion began. Several bombers supplied by the CIA bombed Cuban military aircrafts on the ground at severeal ...

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