1,500 US.-backed anti- Castro Cuban exiles was a fiasco that looms large in recent American history. Within days, every invader was either killed or captured.
In an editorial, the New York Times set the tone of future interpreta- tions when it wrote that "basic and inexcusable miscalculations were made the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [which] presumably
Coming only three months after his inauguration, the Bay of Pigs failure was partic- ularly embarrassing to President John F. Kennedy.
The...