As Cuban chief Raul Castro leaves office, declassified CIA files expose how Washington planned to assassinate him -- Secret History -- Sott.net
The daring incursions 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 t...
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