Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was the CIA’s failed April 1961 operation to land Cuban exiles and overthrow Fidel Castro. The Agency’s declassified internal histories and the State Department’s record document the planning, failure, and fallout.
Search the Bay of Pigs files below across the CIA and State Department.
What you’ll find
- CIA internal histories of the operation
- Planning and operational cables
- Post-mortem and accountability records
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