Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos (Playa Girón) · April 1961

Bay of Pigs Invasion

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The failed April 1961 CIA-sponsored amphibious invasion of southwestern Cuba by Brigade 2506, a force of some 1,400 Cuban exiles trained in Guatemala, aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's revolutionary government. Planned under Eisenhower and approved by Kennedy, the operation collapsed within three days, exposing U.S. involvement, humiliating the new Kennedy administration, and convincing Khrushchev of Kennedy's indecisiveness. The defeat drove Castro firmly into the Soviet orbit, setting the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia (EN) comprehensive article: background, planning, execution, casualties, aftermath, Kennedy-Khrushchev dynamic
  2. Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: Soviet-era context, evolution of operation from Eisenhower to Kennedy, internal U.S. policy debate
  3. nsarchive2.gwu.edu National Security Archive: CIA Inspector General's report on the failure, declassified official history volumes, Kirkpatrick's critique of CIA planning and plausible denial
  4. history.state.gov Office of the Historian: Bay of Pigs as direct precursor to Soviet missile deployment in Cuba; Khrushchev's perception of Kennedy's weakness
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