A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to ...

Description. On April 17, 1961, a force of more than 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the southern coast of Cuba.

Fifty years ago, shortly before midnight on 16 April 1961, a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs ...

He said the CIA is trying to hide a scathing 1961 internal report on the agency’s poor handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

But for those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist dictatorship ...

But for those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist dictatorship ...

The Bay of Pigs refers to the failed 1961 invasion of Cuba led by U.S. Special Forces.

Students in the Honors College are gaining a personal and historical understanding of the 1961 operation to liberate communist Cuba through a new course titled “The Secret War: Brigade 2506 and the ...

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 ...

“Mice 1961” is set in South Florida on the eve of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, at the height of the Cold War, when a group of Cuban exiles opposed to the Castro regime — and covertly ...