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Article: BEYOND THE BAY OF PIGS: THE CUBAN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM AND THE REORIENTATION OF ANTI-CASTROISM.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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"We joined to fight Fidel Castro, not to polish shoes and drill!"(1) asserted one entrant to the military component of the Cuban Volunteer Program, a U.S. government project from May 1961 to September 1963. Jointly administered by the Departments of Defense and Health, Education, and Welfare, the program served several agendas within a broader U.S. campaign to eliminate the Castro regime. Primarily this endeavor constituted a tool of the Kennedy administration's Cuba policy to control fragmented Cuban exile politics, cope with a massive influx of refugees, and reorient anti-Castro strategies following the April 1961 attempted invasion of Cuba at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs). ...