The daring incursion s success was entirely contingent on US air support, which
then-President John F. Kennedy refused to provide, meaning it foundered in just three days, with at least 114 insurgents killed, 360 wounded, and 1,200 captured and jailed. In December the next year, the release of 1,113 Bay of Pigs veterans was secured by a CIA-assisted lawyer, in exchange for $53 million - worth $464.5 million today - in food and medicine.
The details of the embarrassing episode are farcical in the extreme, but the newly-released files make abundantly clear the CIA and their exile proxies were deadly serious - quite literally.
A June 1966 internal Agency
Cuba: quand la CIA voulait assassiner Raul Castro en 1960
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La vérité sur l énigme du bateau français « La Coubre » -- Hernando CALVO OSPINA
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Investigation reveals new information on La Coubre sabotage
Investigation reveals new information on La Coubre sabotage
Paris, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Colombian researcher Hernando Calvo Ospina, who lives in Paris, launched on Thursday his book El enigma de La Coubre (The Enigma of La Coubre), in which he provides new information on the tragic explosion of that ship in Cuba 61 years ago.
The launch, whose television broadcast is scheduled for Thursday in Argentina, Cuba and the multi-state channel teleSUR, included the participation of the publishers in Spanish, Portuguese and French languages, as well as Cuban Ambassador to Belgium Norma Goicochea.
The investigation expands the already known details about the explosion of the French vessel La Coubre in the port of Havana, and reveals new elements in interviews to some of the survivors and information from the archives of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, the French state company that owned the ship.
Investigação revela novos dados sobre sabotagem do navio La Coubre
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