A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion, which began on April 17, 1961. In the video, I look at the mistakes made before and during the invasion ...
Long-secret CIA papers give insight into the failed 1961 attempt to invade Cuba. MIAMI — Newly declassified U.S. documents show a CIA operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the 1961 ...
I went back into Cuba in February 1961, two months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. I was only 20 years old, but I had trained with U.S. agents for more than a year in communications and intelligence.
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...
FILE - This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file) A key adviser warned President John F.