Bay Of Pigs 10 pages
The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay ofPigs, which is located on the south coast of Cuba about 97miles southeast of Havanna, was one of mismanagement, poorjudgment, and stupidity ("Bay of Pigs" 378). The blamefor the failed invasion falls directly on the CIA (CentralIntelligence Agency) and a young president by the name ofJohn F. Kennedy. The whole intention of the invasion was toassault communist Cuba and put an end to Fidel Castro.Ironically, thirty-nine years after the Bay of Pigs, FidelCastro is still in power. First, it is necessary to look atwhy the invasion happened and then why it did not work. From the end of World War II until the mid-eighties,most Americans could agree that communism was the enemy.Communism wanted to destroy our way of life and corrupt thefreest country in the world. Communism is an economicsystem in which one person or a group of people are incontrol. The main purpose of communism is to make thesocial and economic status of all individuals the same. Itabolishes the inequalities in possession of property anddistributes wealth equally to all. The main problem withthis is that one person who is very wealthy can
At the beginning, the CIA purchasedseveral farms in Florida where the Cuban exiles could begintraining (Goode, Stephen 77&78). "The plan that was finally accepted was a more complex and larger version of the operation seven years earlier in Guatemala. He describes his plan ina book entitled, CIA. He is said to be one of the harshest critiques ofthe invasion (Nelson, Craig 1). The CIA project went forward under the pathetic illusion of deniability. Cuba received30,000 tons of arms a year, which included Soviet JS-251-ton tanks, SU-100 assault guns, T-34 35-ton tanks, 76-mmfield guns, 85-mm field guns, and 122-mm field guns (Goode,Stephen 75&76). These men were given achoice either to accept the officials or not accept it andbe flown to Guatemala to stay there until the invasion wascompleted (Goode, Stephen 79). A force of Cuban exiles was to secure a beachhead on Cuba's coastline while a fleet of B-26's, the most powerful war fighting plane, was to put Castro's air force out of commission and disrupt transportation and communication lines (Fursenko, Aleksandr, and Timothy Naftali 95). The United States wanted the prisoners back, and Castroneeded medical supplies. , Thirteen Days / Ninety Miles: The Cuban Missle Crisis. On April 14, 1961, the Liberation Army set sail on sixships from Nicaragua. Most of the capturedexiles confessed their connection with the CIA and spoke ofsupport from the United States (Goode, Stephen 82). The main reason for the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba wasthe change to communism. This was an early attack onCuba, and Castro was not ready for this assault; therefore,resulting in the destruction of half of Castro's planes.
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