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Why was the Bay of pigs initially planned

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Fifty years ago, shortly before midnight on 16 April 1961, a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was initially planned due to US interests of wanting to push out communism from Cuba as if a communist state existed near the US, this may pose a threat to American interests and society as a whole which led to the planning of the invasion as a way for the Americans to achieve this goal while not directly being involved.

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