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- Inlet on the S coast of Cuba about
- 145 km/90 mi SW of Havana, the site of
- an unsuccessful invasion attempt by 1,500
- US-sponsored Cuban exiles 17-20 Apr 1961;
- 1,173 were taken prisoner. The creation of
- this anti-revolutionary force by the CIA had
- been authorized by the Eisenhower
- administration, and the project was executed
- under that of J F Kennedy. In 1962 most of
- the Cuban prisoners were ransomed for $53
- million in food and medicine.
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