1. Bay of Pigs Invasion

2. Castro’s Rise to Power
1 January 1959 – Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista leaves Cuba
8 January Castro’s forces moves into Havana taking control
Promised to maintain the Democratic Constitution of 1940
Imposed authoritarian socialist rule
Thousands of Batista supporters were executed, foreign holdings were confiscated, and American companies lost over a billion dollars in assets

3. U.S. Response
17 March 1960
Pres. Eisenhower agreed to a recommendation by the CIA to train Cuban exiles for action against Castro
U.S. had previous success in covert operations
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953
Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in 1954

4. CIA began to recruit and train anti-Castro forces
Group was named Brigade 2506
Plan code name: Operation Zapata
CIA Director Allen Dulles appointed Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. as director of Operation
Kennedy Plans to go through with the Invasion to overthrow Castro

5. Invasion 17 April 1961 Invaders ran into Soviet Union forces
Around 1,500 Cuban exiles trained by the CIA landed at the Bay of Pigs
Invaders ran into Soviet Union forces
Brigade 2506 did not receive the support it needed
Brigade 2506 was stopped by Castro’s forces
Invasion not a sucess

7. Results 114 Exiles were killed 1,189 Exiles were captured
Kennedy Administration was embarrassed