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U.S. CIA Agency Makes Attempt to Invade Castro on Girón Beach in Cuba

63
years ago

15 April 1961,

In Cuba an attempt was made to invade Girón beach against Castro organized by the U.S. agency CIA. A small island won the world's largest military empire. About 1,500 Cuban emigrants tried to end the Cuban Revolution. The failure brought Cuba closer to the USSR's orbit of influence. A hundred invaders died and nearly 1,200 were captured. The United States had to send for its prisoners a boat full of drugs.

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