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date: 24 March 2025

Bay of Pigs, 

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The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Thomas G. PatersonThomas G. Paterson

site in Cuba of the failed April 1961 invasion by Cuban exiles trained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).U.S. leaders ranked Premier Fidel Castro's growing ties with the Soviet Union; his radical, anti-Yankee Cuban Revolution; and his call for revolutions elsewhere as major threats to U.S. interests in Latin America. In late ... ...

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