the Cuban Missile Crisis vs. the Bay of Pigs

The Cuban Missile Crisis vs . the Bay of Pigs

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INTRODUCTION

From Fidel Castro 's rise to power in Cuba on New Year 's Day of 1959 until the mid-1960s , the U .S . government resorted to economic and political destabilization , propaganda , manipulation , sabotage , and assassination plots to remove him . It was one of the most extensive sustained , and ultimately futile covert action programs by one country against the government of another in the post-World War II era . Instead of ridding the hemisphere of Castro , the covert campaign

undoubtedly contributed to maintaining and consolidating his control over Cuba During more than forty years , he outlasted nine U .S presidents , from Eisenhower to Clinton

The Church Committee report , as it became widely known , remains among the most useful and authoritative documents available on not only the assassination attempts but also the framework within which they occurred citing concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965 ' Among these plots was the Bay of Pigs , for which assassination was a closely held part of the plan , though unknown even to its project director and paramilitary planner (Bohning , 2005

In October 1962 , the world came perilously close to nuclear war President John F . Kennedy appeared on nationwide television on Monday the 22nd and announced that the Soviet Union was building offensive missile sites ' in Cuba . In response to this threat , the president ed a quarantine of all ships carrying offensive military equipments to...