
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bay of Pigs Invasion

Related Topics

Bay of Pigs

Fidel Castro

Zapata swamps

Opposition to Castro

Cuban Missile Crisis

Foreign relations of Cuba

Operation Northwoods

Cuba

Kennedy Doctrine

Ernesto Guevara

Cuban Revolution

Kosovo conflict

In the News (Mon 9 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Bush book: Introduction
		Starting about the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion in the spring of 1961, we have the first hints that Bush, in addition to working for Zapata Offshore, may also have been a participant in certain covert operations of the US intelligence community.
		According to reliable sources and published accounts, the CIA code name for the Bay of Pigs invasion was Operation Zapata, and the plan was so referred to by Richard Bissell of the CIA, one of the plan's promoters, in a briefing to President Kennedy in the Cabinet Room on March 29, 1961.
		After the ignominious defeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion, there was great animosity against Kennedy among the survivors of Brigade 2506, some of whom eventually made their way back to Miami after being released from Castro's prisoner of war camps.
	www.tarpley.net /bush8b.htm (6185 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bay of Pigs Invasion
		The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (also known in Cuba as the Playa Girón after the beach in the Bay of Pigs where the landing took place) was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States.
		Bay of Pigs Invasion, unsuccessful attempt in 1961 to overthrow the government of the Cuban premier Fidel Castro by United States-backed Cuban exiles.
		A little-known tragedy of the Bay of Pigs invasion is revisited.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bay-of-Pigs-Invasion (874 words)

	BAY OF PIGS INVASION,
		On April 17 about 1300 exiles, armed with U.S. weapons, were landed at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba.
		The failure of the invasion seriously embarrassed the Kennedy administration, which was blamed by some for not giving it adequate support and by others for allowing it to take place at all.
		After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=202455 (520 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Trained since May, 1960, in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the approval of the Eisenhower administration, and supplied with arms by the U.S. government, the rebels intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba and overthrow the Communist regime of Fidel Castro.
		The invasion provoked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Latin America and Europe and further embittered U.S.-Cuban relations.
		Cuban exile leader José Miró Cardona, president of the U.S.-based National Revolutionary Council, blamed the failure on the CIA and the refusal of Kennedy to authorize air cover for the invasion force, but perhaps more crucial was the fact that the uprising the exiles hoped and needed to spark did not happened.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/BayPigsI.html (281 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion - MSN Encarta
		Bay of Pigs Invasion, unsuccessful attempt in 1961 to overthrow the government of the Cuban revolutionary and premier Fidel Castro by United States-backed Cuban exiles.
		The invasion plan was approved by Eisenhower's successor, John F. Kennedy.
		News of the impending invasion leaked to the media and also reached Castro, who made preparations for the attack.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555123/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion.html (501 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion - Encyclopedia.com
		Classified disaster: the Bay of Pigs operation was doomed by presidential indecisiveness and lack of commitment.
		A little-known tragedy of the Bay of Pigs invasion is revisited.
		Invasion vets suing Castro: A group of Bay of Pigs combatants plans to file a lawsuit today against Fidel Castro and one of his top commanders.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BayPigsI.html (786 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion — Infoplease.com
		Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government.
		Much later it was revealed that the CIA task force planning the invasion had predicted that the invasion's goals unachievable without U.S. military involvement; it is unclear whether Kennedy or CIA chief Allen Dulles knew of the assessment.
		1961: the Bay of Pigs: a force of Cuban exiles trained and equipped by the U.S. invaded Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow Fidel......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0806555.html (541 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion - MSN Encarta
		However, the operation quickly escalated into plans for a full-scale invasion, with the budget expanding from $4 million to $46 million and the CIA training and supplying anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Guatemala.
		On April 17 about 1500 exiles, armed with U.S. weapons, landed at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba.
		An internal CIA secret audit of the operation blamed the failure on a series of mistakes made by the agency in the planning and execution of the invasion.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555123/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion.html (495 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion Summary
		Although the Bay of Pigs operation had initially been intended to be carried out in a manner that would allow America to deny involvement, it was readily apparent that the United States government was largely responsible for the invasion.
		The population of Trinidad was generally opposed to Castro and the rugged mountains outside the city provided an area of operations where the invasion force could retreat to and establish a guerrilla campaign were the landing to falter.
		Of the Brigade 2506 aircraft sortied on the morning of April 15, one was tasked with establishing the CIA cover story for the invasion.
	www.bookrags.com /Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion (4068 words)

	The CIA's Man at the Bay of Pigs: Grayston Lynch, who fired the first shot at Playa Giron, gives a firsthand
		Such is Grayston L. Lynch's way of explaining his long, strange bond to a flawed president and a lost cause that began 37 years ago with the bloody, tragic, history-altering Bay of Pigs invasion and continued until 1967 in more than 2,000 secret CIA raids on Cuba from Miami.
		Lynch describes Morse's desperate beaching of the Houston in the Bay of Pigs after Cuban warplanes blew a 10-foot hole in its stern.
		After the Bay of Pigs disaster until 1967, Lynch directed 2,126 clandestine CIA assaults on Cuba out of Miami, directly participating in 113 of them.
	www.fiu.edu /~fcf/bpigtestam.html (1098 words)

	Cuba Junky - The Bay of Pigs
		If the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dire event of the Cold War, then the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 was the most absurd.
		Additional supporting documents and an interview with the invasion planners show the Bay of Pigs fiasco to be what historian Theodore Draper calls "a perfect failure." For a narrative overview, see Ale Fursenko's One Hell of a Gamble (LJ 3/15/97).
		This is the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion, told for the first time in the words of the idealistic participants who came together in April, 1961, to overthrow Fidel Castro's dictatorship.
	www.xs4all.nl /~verlaan1/cuba/pigs-bay.html (990 words)

	Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
		The fall out from the invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great superpowers and ironically 34 years after the event, the person that the invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro, is still in power.
		The Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961, started a few days before on April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared to be defecting Cuban air force pilots.
		The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was caused by misinformation and mismanagement, the consequences of that was egg in the face for the Americans and an increase in tension between the superpowers at the height of the cold war.
	www.studyworld.com /Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion.htm (4093 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion
		The Bay of Pigs invasion (or "Operation Pluto") was an attempt by American-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro.
		The invasion was carried out by trained Cuban exiles (approximately 1300) with American weapons landed in the Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos).
		The Bay of Pigs invasion was intended to resemble the CIA invasion of Guatemala in 1954, in which the result was an American-friendly government, but with little change to mass poverty in the country.
	www.angelfire.com /bc3/coldwar/bayofpigs.html (391 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The population of Trinidad was generally opposed to Castro and the rugged mountains outside the city provided an area of operations where the invasion force could retreat to and establish a guerrilla campaign were the landing to falter.
		By the time the Invasion began, Castro had already executed some who were suspected of colluding with the American campaign, and imprisoned the others (notably two former "Comandantes" Humberto Sorí Marin [4] and William Morgan [5] [6]).
		The term "Bay of Pigs" was also used by President Richard Nixon as a coded reference to the Kennedy assassination in White House conversations recorded on the Watergate tapes.
	www.search.com /reference/Bay_of_Pigs_invasion (2536 words)

	ipedia.com: Bay of Pigs Invasion Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a US planned and funded landing by armed Cuban exiles on southern Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban socialist government of Fidel Castro which had deposed the US-b...
		The failed Bay of Pigs invasion severely embarrassed the Kennedy administration, and made Castro wary of future US incursions into Cuba.
		A Washington Post article, "Bay of Pigs Declassified" April 29th, 2000, indicated that the CIA knew that the Soviets knew the invasion would take place before it happened and did not inform Kennedy.
	www.ipedia.com /bay_of_pigs_invasion.html (745 words)

	[No title]
		The Zapata Peninsula, where the Bay of Pigs is located, was swampy, isolated, and uninhabited, so there could have been no possibility of a spontaneous uprising, because no indigenous Cubans would have seen the landing.
		This is the version that appears in Peter Wyden's much-quoted book Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story (Jonathan Cape, 1979), and repeated, for example, in John Ranelagh's The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (Touchstone, 1986).
		One of the landing craft at the Bay of Pigs was the Barbara J. Now, if Barbara Bush (ne Barbara Pierce) had a middle name like Jane or Jennifer, we might be on to something, but apparently she has no middle name at all.
	history.eserver.org /bay-of-pigs.txt (10171 words)

	Bay of Pigs and Brigade 2506
		The Bay of Pigs is the name we now call the 1961 CIA sponsored invasion of Cuba.
		The Cubans in Cuba refer to the Bay of Pigs Invasion as "Playa Giron", a beach on the bay.
		Bay of Pigs Barracks on SW 128 ST Miami...
	cuban-exile.com /menu2/22506.html (411 words)

	[No title]
		The Zapata Peninsula, where the Bay of Pigs is located, was swampy, isolated, and uninhabited, so there could have been no possibility of a spontaneous uprising, because no indigenous Cubans would have seen the landing.
		This is the version that appears in Peter Wyden's much-quoted book Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story (Jonathan Cape, 1979), and repeated, for example, in John Ranelagh's The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (Touchstone, 1986).
		One of the landing craft at the Bay of Pigs was the Barbara J. Now, if Barbara Bush (ne Barbara Pierce) had a middle name like Jane or Jennifer, we might be on to something, but apparently she has no middle name at all.
	eserver.org /history/bay-of-pigs.txt (10171 words)

	Archive \| April 23, 2001 \| The deliberately bungled Bay of Pigs invasion
		The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, 40 years ago, would leave the Cuban people chafing under the millstone of Castro's brutal, jackbooted, left-wing regime where they remain to this day.
		The invasion plan, conceived by the CIA, was meant to convince Castro, after a cease fire, to allow for free elections.
		The heroic men landing at the Bay of Pigs had no idea that their fate, and many of their lives, were already forfeited in Washington for political reasons that remain murky to this day.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0401baypigs.htm (885 words)

	What Was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
		Vice President Richard Nixon was the main proponent of the Bay of Pigs invasion and agreed that the invasion was to be pushed ahead.
		By 1961, President John F Kennedy (JFK) was in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
		After the Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro strengthened his relations with the Soviet Union, leading to the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-was-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.htm (542 words)

	Bay of Pigs Invasion
		The Bay of Pigs affair was an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961, at Playa Girón (the Bay of Pigs) by about two thousand Cubans who had gone into exile after the 1959 revolution.
		The Eisenhower administration planned the Bay of Pigs attack, training anti-Castro Cubans in Guatemala and obtaining permission from Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza to launch the invasion from Puerto Cabezas on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast.
		Before and after the invasion, the United States promoted the expulsion of Cuba from the Organization of American States, attempted an unsuccessful diplomatic quarantine, and stopped all Cuban exports from entering the United States.
	members.tripod.com /rodjpr/id252.htm (251 words)

	Bay of Pigs
		The Bay of Pigs was one of the most important political decisions in the history of the United States.
		The main reason, and possibly the lone reason, for the Bay of Pigs invasion was to stop communism from reaching our country.
		The Bay of Pigs has affected the country in such a way that it would be difficult to imagine our country, and especially South Florida, not worrying about Cuba.
	education.miami.edu /ep/LittleHavana/Monuments/Virgin1/The_Virgin_Mary/Bay_of_Pigs/bay_of_pigs.html (904 words)

	American President: Bay of Pigs Invasion Begins -- April 17, 1961
		The plan for a covert invasion of Cuba originated in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
		The operation was limited to one round of air strikes in disguised planes followed by the CIA-trained exiles landing at the Bay of Pigs to invade Cuba.
		When the invasion began on April 17, Castro quickly ordered his military forces to the area, trapping the exiles on the beach.
	millercenter.virginia.edu /index.php/academic/americanpresident/events/04_17 (557 words)

	Bay of Pigs CIA/NSC/State Department Files
		In 1961 a covert operation codenamed "Operation Zapata" called for 1,500 Cuban exiles to land on the southwestern coast of Cuba, mostly at the Bay of Pigs (Bahia de los Cochinos).
		Within days of the Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy assigned General Maxwell Taylor to head the main inquiry into the government's handling of the operation.
		This volume presents the documentary record of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and U.S. courses of action in response to the unsuccessful invasion.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /baypigs.html (486 words)

	Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu
		Nation and NY Times: Bay of Pigs Deja Vu "The assault on a free press...should be recognized for what it is," wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich last Sunday.
		According to McWilliams's memoirs (and the Columbia University "Forum" on "The Press and the Bay of Pigs" of Fall 1967), a week or so after the Bay of Pigs fiasco a group of press executives met with President Kennedy at the White House.
		The Bay of Pigs invasion failed because of a lack of poor planning, the idiotic change of location, execution, and the usual military disasters that develop when you let the State Dept get involved as Kennedy did.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=99579 (1312 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)