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Article: Conference revisits Bay of Pigs failure.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- June 13, 1996
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Thirty-five years later, the same haunting questions remain: Why did the Bay of Pigs _ the ill-fated 1961 U.S. effort to dislodge Cuba's Fidel Castro _ fail?
As part of the latest ongoing effort to find answers _ and armed with recently declassified documents _ former officials of the CIA, Kennedy White House, State Department, along with Bay of Pigs veterans, anti-Castro resistance members and scholars recently gathered on an island off the Georgia coast.
For many of the players, it was the first time they had ever met. And it was obvious that for some, such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. of the Kennedy White House and the CIA's Jake Esterline, the Bay of Pigs ...