On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days.

Campus & Community Bay of Pigs history course has personal meaning for students whose family members participated in the invasion This week marks 64 years since the 1961 landing of Cuban exiles on the ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...