Difference between revisions of "Bay of Pigs Invasion"
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{{Event | {{Event | ||
|timelines=John F. Kennedy/Assassination, Test | |timelines=John F. Kennedy/Assassination, Test | ||
| + | |image=Bay of Pigs Invasion.jpg | ||
|start=May 20 1961 | |start=May 20 1961 | ||
|end=May 20 1961 | |end=May 20 1961 | ||
Revision as of 11:39, 1 June 2016
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| Date | May 20 1961 |
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| Exposed by | Tad Szulc |
| Interest of | Theodore Achilles, Jacob Esterline |
| Description | A failed attempt to invade Cuba by the CIA. |
Operational details
Jacob Esterline was a key organiser. He had second thoughts about it and wanted to resign, but was persuaded not to by the CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Richard M. Bissell Jr.[citation needed]
Failure
Fletcher Prouty reports that an investigation into the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion by John F. Kennedy determined that the key operational error was a failure to destroy all of the Cuban planes, which allowed them to destroy the supply boats for the invaders. This was traced to a miscommunication by McGeorge Bundy.[1]
Euphemistic use
When Richard Nixon refers to the "Bay of Pigs" many historians have conjectured that he was actually referring to the JFK Assassination.
