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

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So high, in fact, that Bay of Pigs survivor Mario Cabello ... Nicaraguan-based planes on Cuban air bases tipped off Cuban leaders to the attack. The exiles expected the Cuban people to rise ...

Khrushchev warned President Kennedy today that an American attack on Cuba might ... States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news ...

Khrushchev warned President Kennedy today that an American attack on Cuba might ... States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news ...