The truth and bare facts about the Bay of Pigs

[David Josephs]

To set the situation into its context I'd suggest working thru the hundreds if not thousands of documents available on the different FRUS subjects...

Foreign Relations of the United States, 19581960, Cuba, Volume VI

U.S. Interest in the Cuban Revolution, the Overthrow of the Batista Government, and the Consolidation of Power by Fidel Castro, reevaluation by the U.S. Government of the policy of shipping arms to the Batista government, JanuaryJune 1958
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocum...-60v06/ch1

http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/kennedy

Kennedy Administration

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 19521954

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 19641968

1. Congo, 19601968, Volume XXIII (Full Text, Ebook, PDF)