One of the great U.S. foreign policy fiascos shows that presidents sometimes ignore the advice to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. Brigade 2506 landing craft at the Bay of Pigs after ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 17, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban ...
The infamous paramilitary assault remains a cautionary Cold War history. Sixty-five long years after the Kennedy White House launched a CIA-led paramilitary invasion at the Bahia de Cochinos, the ...