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"A Forgotten Site in Florida Where the Bay of Pigs Invaders Trained

by Don Bohning

Don Bohning, a retired Miami Herald Latin America editor, is author of The Castro Obsession: US Covert Activities Against Cuba 1959-1965.

It’s been a half century since a U.S.-trained Cuban exile brigade landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s South Coast on April 17, 1961, in a failed attempt to oust Fidel Castro; a controversial operation still being debated today.

The main reasons for that failure have been well-chronicled: a change in the landing site from Trinidad to the Bay of Pigs and the last minute cancellation of air cover as the brigade landed.

Largely ignored as part of the operation, is the small, but important, role played by Useppa, a tiny island off Florida’s Gulf Coast."

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