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US Releases Documents on Bay of Pigs Invasion

Posted August 15th, 2011 at 4:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Newly declassified documents show that a CIA field operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. The documents were released Monday by George Washington University’s National Security Archive. According to the papers, the operative fired rifles and machine guns on B-26 aircraft the CIA had supplied […]

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US Releases Bay of Pigs Documents

Posted August 2nd, 2011 at 6:25 pm (UTC-5)
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The United States has made public documents on the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, describing U.S. negotiations with some other regional governments on support for the botched mission. The documents were released this week by George Washington University’s National Security Archive. In April, the Archive filed a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence […]

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