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Essay Archive - The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one
of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The blame for the
failure of the operation falls directly in the lap of the Central
Intelligence Agency and a young president and his advisors. The fall out
from the invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great
superpowers and ironically 34 years after the event, the person that the
invasion meant to topple, Fidel Castro, is still in power. To understand
the origins of the invasion and its ramifications fo....
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