THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION

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Term Paper Title	THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION
# of Words	3546
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	14.18

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, a young president and his advisors.  The fall out from the invasion caused a rise in tension between the two great superpowers. Ironically thirty-four 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 it is first necessary to look at the invasion.
     Part I: The Invasion and it's Origins
     The Bay of Pigs invasion started on April 15th, 1961 with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared to be defecting Cuban air force pilots.  At 6:00 a.m. on Saturday B-26 bombers bombed three Cuban military bases.  The airfields at Camp Libertad, San Antonio de los Baos and Antonio Maceo Airport at Santiago de Cuba were also fired upon.  Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven people were killed at other sites on the island.
     Two of the B-26s left Cuba and flew to Miami, apparently to defect to the United States.  The Cuban Revolutionary Council, the government in exile, in New York City released a statement saying that the bombings in Cuba were "…carried out by Cubans inside Cuba who were in contact with the top command of the Revolutionary Council…"  The NY Times reporter covering the story alluded to something being wrong with the whole situation when he wondered how the council knew the pilots were coming if the pilots had only decided to leave Cuba on Thursday after "…a suspected betrayal by a fellow pilot had precipitated a plot to strike…"  Whatever the case, the planes came down in Miami later that morning, one landed at Key West Naval Air Station at 7:00 a.m. and the other at Miami International airport at 8:20 a.m.  Both planes were badly damaged and their tanks were nearly empty.  On the front page of the NY Times the next day, a picture of one of the B-26s was shown along with a picture of one of the pilots cloaked in a baseball hat and hiding behind dark sunglasses, his name was withheld.  A sense of conspiracy began to envelop the events of that week.
     In the early hours of April 17th the assault on the Bay of Pigs began.  In the true cloak and dagger spirit of a movie, the assault began at 2:00 a.m. with a team of frogmen going ashore with orders to set up landing lights to indicate...

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