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World Service,15 Jul 2012,15 mins

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Witness History

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In 1961 Alfredo Duran was part of a group of CIA-trained Cuban exiles who invaded the island to try to overthrow Fidel Castro's revolutionary government. He tells Witness how the scheme went badly wrong, and how the promise of help from the Americans never came.

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