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The Bay of Pigs

The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one of

mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The blame for the

failure of the operation falls directly in the lap of the Central

Intelligence Agency and a young president and his advisors. The fall out

from the invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great

superpowers and ironically 34 years after the event, the person that the

invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro, is still in power. To understand

the origins of the invasion and its ramifications for the future it is

first necessary to look at the invasion and its origins.

Part I: The Invasion and its Origins.

The Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961, started a few days before on

April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared to be defecting Cuban

air force pilots. At 6 a.m. in the morning of that Saturday, three Cuban

military bases were bombed by B-26 bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad,

San Antonio de los Baos and Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de Cuba were

fired upon. Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven people

were killed at other sites on the island.

Two of the B-26s left Cuba and flew to


ships were kept at bay by Casto's air force. As with many failed military

simply melt into the countryside and become guerrillas,

chosen reports on the unreliability of Castro's forces and the extent of

." Whatever the case, the planes came down in Miami later that morning, one

involved in the invasion and stated in one of his messages that a,

. . . Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or

Juan Jose Ar,valo. He was not a communist in the traditional sense of the

Ranelagh, John. CIA: A History. London: BBC Books, 1992.



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