On April 17, 1961, the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Cuba government began. Poor ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...

director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of "The Kennedy Half-Century" The Bay of Pigs fiasco prompts an aide's memo Morley said Schlesinger's memo provides the ...

Now they are likening an inconsequential national security meeting that did not involve the president and generated in indiscretion that caused no harm to a highly successful mission to one of the ...