Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic mission of this semi-clandestine bomber force was to destroy Castro's planes on the ground before the invasion was launched. That task, the invasion planners decided, would take three days of repeated strikes at "targets of opportunity." After that, the bombers were supposed to provide close support for the invaders as they moved over the beaches. But shortly before the invasion got under way, White House orders went out limiting the B-26 force to two pre-invasion strikes. The first ineffectual sortie, two days before Dday, set off rumblings at the United Nations, so Kennedy called...
Over the beach the B-26 force was shattered by Castro's T-33 jet trainers. Offshore stood at least one U.S. aircraft carrier, and its jet fighters might have been enough, even that late, to reverse the outcome-but they remained on the sidelines. The invaders' appeals for help-"Mad Dog Four, May Day, Red Beach" -went unheeded. According to the official version, the U.S. Navy was there to defend the invasion ships in case they were discovered and attacked in international waters-it was not supposed to aid the landing...
...score of B-26s was indeed the only air cover contemplated for the invasion, then the U.S. planners, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who reportedly okayed the plan), stand convicted of incompetence. They knew that Castro had a force of T-33s, and they also knew that after the long flight from Puerto Cabezas the B-26s would have only enough fuel left to keep aloft for 40 minutes over the target area...
What scares me about that $53 million ransom for the Bay of Pigs prisoners [Jan. 11] is not that Castro blackmailed the U.S. Government, but that the U.S. Government blackmailed U.S. corporations into "donating" the $53 million...
...civil insurgent, resigned as president on the grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused to talk about Vanessa's reason for bombing the bans: "I cannot say anything more than that it was a short letter...