Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1962
The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs isone of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. Theblame for the failure of the operation falls directly in the lap ofthe Central Intelligence Agency and a young president and hisadvisors. The fall out from the invasion caused a rise in tensionbetween the two great superpowers and ironically 34 years after theevent, the person that the invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro,is still in power. To understand the origins of the invasion andits ramifications for the future it is first necessary to look atPart I: The Invasion and its Origins. The Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961, started a few daysbefore on April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared tobe defecting Cuban air force pilots. At 6 a.m. in the morning ofthat Saturday, three Cuban military bases were bombed by B-26bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad, San Antonio de los Ba¤osand Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de Cuba were fired upon.Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven people werekilled at other sites on the island. Two of the B-26s left Cuba and flew to
The plan was becoming rushed and this wouldstart to show, the man in charge of the operation, CIA DeputyDirector Bissell said that, . Those in charge of Operation Pluto, basedthis new operation on the success of the Guatemalan adventure, butthe situation in Cuba was much different than that in Guatemala. The 1500 men of the invading force never had a chance forsuccess from almost the first days in the planning stage of theoperation. The CIA made sure the deck was stacked in their favour when thetime came to decide whether a project they sponsored was sound ornot. All Castro's people had to do was read the newspapers and they'dknow that something was going to happen, that those planes that hadbombed them were not their own but American. The CIA hadthe United States Ambassador, John Puerifoy, working on the insideof Guatemala coordinating the effort, in Cuba they had none of thiswhile Castro was being supplied by the Soviet block. On June 17th to the 18th, it peaked with an invasion of 450men lead by a Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.
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