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All About History Events That Changed The World (Digital)

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THE BAY OF PIGS

The failed invasion that led to the Crisis WHY IT HAPPENED • Concern in the US over the new left-wing direction of Cuba’s politics after the removal of dictator Fulgencio Batista by revolutionary Fidel Castro. • US concern over trials and executions of former Batista supporters. • Castro was an outspoken critic of the USA. WHAT WENT WRONG? A damning CIA report from November 1961 outlined a catalogue of points that made the attempted invasion doomed to failure. Its author, Inspector General Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, identified that there were no policies or contingency plans in place should the invasion have succeeded. Insufficient and poorly managed staff had been assigned to the project, relatively few of whom even spoke Spanish. US intelligence in Cuba had been improperly analysed. There had been…
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