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JFK and the long shadow caused by the Bay of Pigs
Updated / Thursday, 15 Apr 2021
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Federico Fidel Fernandez, a Miami Cuban refugee, listens to President Kennedy s television address 22nd October 1962, in which the President explained the United States position on the Cuban situation to the American people and the world.
Analysis: The lessons Kennedy had learned from the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs were to stand him - and the world - in good stead during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but Cuban-American relations still remain complex sixty years later.
Sixty years ago, on 17 April 1961, a brigade of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs. These exiles were part of a covert US plan, developed in the final year of the Eisenhower administration, to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro. Eisenhower had previously used the CIA to overthrow problematic regimes in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954.
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Antiwar.com Original
Trump is gone; Biden is in. But America is still recognizing the coup leader in Venezuela, is silent on Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara, is continuing Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol while accepting the importance of Israel’s hold on the Golan Heights and is only cautiously correcting course on Cuba.
The history of American coups and colonialism is nearly – but importantly not quite – as old as the history of America. The need for such expansionistic policies has always been attributed to the fear of the spread of communism.
But outside of Europe, in the third and nonaligned worlds, what America spread
THE HITLER FILES
Brit and US spies hunted Hitler for TEN YEARS after WW2 over fake sightings in South America, secret docs show
Revealed
Updated: 26 Jan 2021, 11:31
DECLASSIFIED documents show how the UK and US hunted for Adolf Hitler for 10 years after the end of World War 2 as they feared he was still alive.
Spy files held in the archives of the CIA and the FBI unearthed by The Sun Online show the stunning leads pursued with very real fear that Hitler escaped from his bunker in Berlin.
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Adolf Hitler died in 1945 - but the hunt for him lasted well into the 1950sCredit: Getty - Contributor