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Despite US denial for 26 years, eight members of the Alabama Air National Guard volunteered to pose as Cuban rebel pilots during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Of these 8, 4 were killed when promised air cover never arrived, with two of the pilots dying in a firefight after being shot down.
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Leonard Cohen was in Cuba during the U.S.-led Bay of Pigs invasion and was detained by Military Police as he was suspected of being a part of the invasion
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Fidel Castro kept the remains of an Alabama Air National Guard pilot frozen for 18 years, in an attempt to prove that America was involved with the Bay of Pigs invasion
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Every spring an estimated 100 million Cuban land crabs make a six mile pilgrimage from the rainforest to the Bay of Pigs to lay their eggs.
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Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis was also involved in aiding Fidel Castro, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, The Iran-Contra Affair, as well as several other major Cold War Era events.
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Che Guevara Thanked the United States for the Bay of Pigs Invasion
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During the height of the Bay of Pigs crisis, Castro planned to blow up their largest prison in case of a rescue attempt or an American military operation, killing the 6000 or so political prisoners housed there.
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After CIA failed attempt to invade Cuba at Bay of Pigs revolutionary leader Che Guevara actually thanked President Kennedy and the US for the invasion "it had been a great political victory for them—enabled them to consolidate—and transformed them from an aggrieved little country to an equal”
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There's a village in Cuba named Australia, and it served as Fidel Castro's base of operations during the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion
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Post the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Che Guevara sent a note to Kennedy - ""Thanks for Playa Girón. Before the invasion, the revolution was weak. Now it's stronger than ever."
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Only 2 days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion on Cuba, the CIA attempted to use General Maurice Challe to stage yet another coup in France. President De Gaulle called, not on his own military to protect France, but on the citizenry to take up arms against the military insurrection.
