The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension ... They landed at the Bay of Pigs, and tried to overthrow ...

Morley sees it as a response to Kennedy's anger over the Bay of Pigs and something Kennedy was seriously contemplating. The plan never came to fruition. Sabato said that Kennedy simply “needed the CIA ...

One file detailed the CIA’s operations in Cuba in September 1961, shortly after American-backed anti-communist Cuban commandos launched their failed Bay of Pigs invasion in April of that year.

By deftly manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War, he managed to turn ... after the U.S.-sponsored exile invasion at Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist ...

Rather, Cold War politics were front and center ... The president was still smarting from the failed April 17 Bay of Pigs invasion, in which a group of U.S.—sponsored Cuban exiles had attempted ...