Bay of Pigs Invasion: Chronicling the Bay of Pigs Invasion, from the Rise of Castro to the Failure of the Invasion

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During the Kennedy administration, the CIA attempted to remove Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power by staging the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. The United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency have been plotting Castro's overthrow since 1959. The CIA's chiefs felt that an invasion of Cuba by 1,400 Cubans who had left thei...