We'd carried out the Bay of Pigs operation, never intending to use American military force - but the Kremlin didn't know that.

He said that the division was assembled shortly after the Bay of Pigs operation, and that "many men connected with that failure were shunted into the new domestic unit."

Even the breakdown of relations after the revolution, with the Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs operation, paradoxically joined the countries together.

He helped plan the Bay of Pigs operation in the early 1960's.

Unfortunately, it was a lesson that the planners of the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba in 1961 did not learn well enough.

As supervisor of covert activities, Mr. Bissell helped plan the Bay of Pigs operation and could not avoid responsibility for its failure.

The access was extraordinary - Kennedy even allowed Mr. Drew in on an early planning meeting about the Bay of Pigs operation, a scene that was edited out.

Bissell had a meeting with John F. Kennedy about the Bay of Pigs operation.

The largest and most complicated coup effort, approved at White House level, was the Bay of Pigs operation.

Lynch's memoirs provide one of the few true ground-truth account of the Bay of Pigs operation.