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Bay Of Pigss

By veresia

  • JAN 7, 1959:

    JAN 7, 1959:
    Washington officially recognizes the new governmen

  • july 8 1959

    july 8 1959
    CIA briefing for the National Security Council reports on “preparations in Cuba for efforts against Dominican Republic

  • SEP 4, 1959:

    SEP 4, 1959:
    Ambassador Bonsal meets with Fidel Castro in Cuba.

  • LATE OCTOBER 1959:

    LATE OCTOBER 1959:
    President Eisenhower approves a program proposed by the Department of State, in agreement with the CIA, to support elements in Cuba opposed to the Castro government.

  • NOV 1959:

    NOV 1959:
    Manuel Artíme travels undercover to Mexico and makes contact with other Cuban exiles from the LAR in Mexico. A bible is used for coding messages.

  • EARLY DEC, 1959:

    EARLY DEC, 1959:
    Rogelio Gonzalez Corso, Rafael Rivas Vazquez, Carlos Rodriguez Santana, Jorge Sotus and Sergio Sanjenis meet in Mexico and decide to create the Movimiento de Recuperación Revolutionaries (MRR), or Revolutionary Recovery Movement.

  • JAN 12, 1960:

    JAN 12, 1960:
    Throughout the month of January, sabotage and small bombing missions in Cuba increase in frequency. A plane drops incendiary bombs in the areas of Bainoa, Caraballo, and San Antonio de Rio Blanco.

  • JAN 21, 1960:

    JAN 21, 1960:
    A plane drops four one-hundred pound bombs on the urban district of Cojimar y Regla in Havana.

  • FEB 1-13, 1960:

    FEB 1-13, 1960:
    Planes drop bombs burning more than 17,000 arrobas of cane in Trinidad

  • MAR 17, 1960:

    MAR 17, 1960:
    At an Oval Office meeting with high-ranking national security officials, President Eisenhower approves a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) policy paper titled "A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime." The CIA plan involves four main courses of action