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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. Richard M. Bissell Jr. - Wikipedia

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    The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Scribner. ISBN 978-1416596509. Taubman, Phil. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003). ISBN 0-684-85699-9

  4. Brigade 2506 - Wikipedia

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    On 29 December 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a 'welcome back' ceremony for captured Brigade 2506 veterans at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Some of its members have gone on to found the Brigade 2506 Veterans' Association, which own the Bay of Pigs Museum & Library in Miami.

  5. In Miami, 60 years later, we’re still left with the ‘what ifs ...

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    Indeed, some critics of the Warren Commission’s report even theorized that the CIA, angry that JFK had failed to support the Bay of Pigs invasion, was somehow involved in his assassination ...

  6. Kennedy's betrayal - Wikipedia

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    In their investigation into John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, the committee concluded that Cuban exiles had a "motive" to assassinate Kennedy: namely, a sense of betrayal after the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. [7] In 1998, Bay of Pigs veteran and ex-CIA officer Grayston Lynch published his book Decision for Disaster ...

  7. Who Really Killed JFK? After 60 Years and New Clues, the ...

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    Who killed John F. Kennedy? 60 years after the President's assassination on November 22, ... For the anti-Castro Cubans, there was the matter of the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, ...

  8. Newly released JFK documents point to what the CIA was hiding

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    Kennedy fields a question at a press conference on April 14, 1961, three days before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and just three months into Kennedy's presidency. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...

  9. Allen Dulles - Wikipedia

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    Dulles referred to the Bay of Pigs failure as "the worst day of my life" [50] and developed a strong dislike of Kennedy, later telling journalist Willie Morris "that little Kennedy, he thought he was a god". [51] Dulles found life outside the CIA difficult, with his friend James Angleton recalling "He had a very difficult time to decompress". [52]