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

Kennedy had inherited the Bay of Pigs plan from his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower, and had been in office less than three months when the operation launched in April 1961 as a covert ...

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

A JFK adviser had proposed giving state dept control of ‘all clandestine activities’ and breaking up CIA Some Kennedy scholars said they haven't yet seen anything in the 63,000 pages of ...

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 ...