|
Fidel_Castro (6860 words) |
 | Assault Brigade 2506, a force of about 1,400 Cuban exiles, financed and trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, and commanded by Cuban Manuel Artime and CIA operatives Grayston Lynch and William Robertson, landed perhaps a hundred miles south-east of Havana, at Playa Girón on the Bay of Pigs. |
| After three days of ferocious fighting in which about 100 invaders and perhaps 2,000 militia, perhaps 5000 according to Lynch, more died (most trapped in buses on the causeways), the rest of the invaders were captured [34]. |
| At least nine invaders were formally executed in connection with this action, however, a number died of suffocation in an unventilated truck trailer, while Castro attributed the defeat of the invasion to his leadership. |
| Cuba List : Cuba (1032 words) |
| The CIA's Man at the Bay of Pigs: Grayston Lynch, who fired the... |
| Lynch was our man on Cuba's Playa Giron beach on April 16, 1961 -- the white, ''Tex-Mex''-speaking CIA agent who fired the first shot of the |
| Cuba-Pictures.com - Cuba travel photos of Matanzas and Varadero |
Feeds |
Contact