President John F. Kennedy's sanctioning of the Bay of Pigs operation had a significant impact on contemporary popular perceptions of his administration. For the majority, Kennedy's actions proved that he was willing to actively confront...
The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. This action accelerated a rapid...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s April 24 op-ed column, "Bush's Thousand Days," omitted mention of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the role it played in the Cuban missile crisis. Intelligence mistakes -- including Mr. Schlesinger's own overstatement of the military capabilities of...
IN THE LONG ANNALS OF US FOREIGN POLICY, NO FIASCO WAS MORE COMPLETE, NO MISCARRIAGE MORE TOTAL, THAN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY'S ATTEMPTED INVASION OF CUBA AT THE BAY OF PIGS IN APRIL 1961. HISTORIANS CALL IT "THE PERFECT FAILURE." IT HAS BEEN A...
He served as a Navy and CIA officer, and helped orchestrate a coup in Guatamala and the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, but E. Howard Hunt is best known as something he always said he wasn't: a Watergate burglar.Hunt, who often said he preferred the...
A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara's hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara's capture in the jungles of...
