- Wikipedia: Bay of Pigs Invasion
Overview of the U.S.-planned and funded landing by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in 1961.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
- Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy - Cuban Missile Crisis
Links to documents, diplomatic briefs, chronologies, and speeches that reveal U.S./Cuban relations from the 1940s thru the revolution in 1959, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and the Cuban Missle Crisis in 1962.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm
- Invasion at Bay of Pigs
Overview of the failed, U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba by counterrevolutionary forces in April 1961.
www.historyofcuba.com/history/baypigs/pigs.htm
- Brigada 2506
Presents the history of the Bay of Pigs invasion from a Cuban perspective. Includes photographs of martyrs, songs, museum information, and more.
www.brigada2506.com
- CIA Files: Bay of Pigs
Collection of documents released by the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act concerning the ill-fated 1961 attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's goverment. Includes official reports and commentary, security briefings, and Spanish-language documents.
www.foia.cia.gov/bay_of_pigs.asp
- Spartacus Educational: Bay of Pigs
Describes the events that led up to the invasion of Cuba by U.S.-backed Cuban forces at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDbayofpigs.htm
- Bay of Pigs Revisited
Essay by Michael Morrissey arguing that the CIA sabotaged its own operation in order to try to force President Kennedy into ordering a full-scale invasion of Cuba.
www.serendipity.li/cia/bay-of-pigs.htm
- Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After
Features declassified documents and audio recordings released as part of a 2001 international conference in Havana, Cuba.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs
- Bay of Pigs Online
By Jared Wiener. Describes the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and other aspects of Cuban-American relations at that time.
members.aol.com/yo1460/byopr
- Electronic Briefing Book: The ULTRASENSITIVE Bay of Pigs
Provides excerpts from previously censored portions of the Taylor Commission Report, the highly critical series of narratives and memoranda produced after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB29
- Foreign Relations of the United States: Cuba 1961-1962
Volume X issued for the U.S. Department of State. Concerning U.S.-Cuba relations during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusX
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