A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...

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

April 17th marks a day filled with events that have significantly shaped the course of history across various continents and ...

Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President, recalled the 1961 US-led mercenary ...

This week marks 64 years since the 1961 landing of Cuban exiles on the southern shores of their homeland in what was, ...

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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 ...

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Some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days.