ASIN: B00IFG1M9E
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 44
*Includes pictures.*Includes quotes about the plan and its failure, including from declassified CIA files.*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents. “Openly and unabashedly they are organizing training camps; openly and unabashedly they are building air bases and air strips. Everyone knows who is building the strips and buying planes, that mercenaries are recruiting troops. They even have the cynicism to publish photographs.” – Fidel Castro, March 1961Within just a month of becoming President, the issue of communist Cuba became central to John F. Kennedy and his administration. On February 3rd, 1961, President Kennedy called for a plan to support Cuban refugees in the U.S., and a month later, he created the Peace Corps, a program that trained young American volunteers to help with economic and community development in poor countries. ...
