John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Bay of
Pigs
"A group of captured U.S.-backed Cuban exiles, known as Brigade 2506, being lined up by Fidel Castro’s soldiers at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, following an unsuccessful invasion of the island, April 1961" (Britannica).
Operation
Mongoose
"Castro and Khrushchev" (BBC).
Proposed
Operation Northwoods
(National Security Archive)
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