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  2. Bay of Pigs Invasion - Wikipedia

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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) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting ...

  3. Bay of Pigs - Wikipedia

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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 Santa Clara Province, and then to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was reassigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into 14 new Provinces of Cuba.

  4. Kennedy's betrayal - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, Bay of Pigs veteran and ex-CIA officer Grayston Lynch published his book Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs which openly described Kennedy as cowardly. Lynch claimed that official U.S. intervention in the invasion was a reasonable idea and would not have been diplomatically disastrous, unlike what Kennedy and other ...

  5. Enrique Ruíz-Williams - Wikipedia

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    Enrique (Harry) Ruíz-Williams was a Cuban-born exile living in the United States who was second in command of the heavy weapons battalion of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. [1] During the invasion, Williams unsuccessfully attempted a point-blank range assassination of Fidel Castro. [2]

  6. Tad Szulc - Wikipedia

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    From 1953 to 1972, Szulc was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. [1]In 1961, Szulc reported on preparations for a US-sponsored assault on Cuba by anti-Castro forces - the counterinsurgency that would become known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

  7. Military history of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    Counter-attack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces during the Bay of Pigs Invasion The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Girón in Cuba), was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from U.S. armed forces to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

  8. Operation 40 - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The group was established in 1960 to target the new communist regime in Cuba, and it participated in the planning and execution of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. If the invasion had proved successful, the group would have aided in forming a right-wing government while purging Castro supporters and other left dissidents. [3]

  9. Playa Girón - Wikipedia

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    In April 1961, Playa Girón was one of two landing sites for seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt [2] to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Over 72 hours, fighting took place in many parts of the Cienaga de Zapata, Playa Girón being the ...