Pigs, Missiles and the CIA: Volume 2 - Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Bromley Linda Rios
The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 executed by Cuban patriots to overthrow Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, ended in a catastrophic failure. Leaders in Washington and Cuban exiles in Florida expected…
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 executed by Cuban patriots to overthrow Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, ended in a catastrophic failure. Leaders in Washington and Cuban exiles in Florida expected the result to install a democratic government in place, but Castro remained in charge. Finger pointing among the Cuba Task Force in Washington, DC resulted in many fired from their government jobs. The pot continued to simmer and discovery of Soviet missiles by U-2 spy planes confirmed Washington's worst fear, another showdown with the Soviet Union. At the time, no telephones between Washington and Moscow existed, no real-time communications or computers to accurately identify the location of undersea vessels. John F. Kennedy, the 43-year-old President of the US, and his administration had no experience dealing with or negotiating through a crisis involving nuclear weapons. However, they