Guatemala apologizes to Cuba for Bay of Pigs

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom apologized to Cuba on Tuesday for his country's having allowed the CIA to train exiles in the Central American country for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

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Obama has Kennedy's confidence in his own judgment, which Johnson tragically lacked. Gordon Goldstein's very good book "Lessons in Disaster," about McGeorge Bundy—national security adviser to both J.F.K.

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"The greatest achievements of Communism are health care, sports, and education. The greatest failures of Communism are breakfast, lunch, and dinner." (via Cuba in a Time Warp - The Atlantic Food Channel).

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Herbert Philbrick, a Boston advertising executive who infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940s, wrote a bestselling book on the life of a double agent, "I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy" (1952).

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THE WHOLE ARTICLE IS WORTH READING.

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David Ignatius pauses to look back at John F Kennedy's first year in office, reminding us that it was essentially an unmitigated disaster:

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Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life.

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The Good Shepherd — The Poor Man's Film Review

The Poor Man's Film Reviews The Good Shepherd

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A story is often told at times like this - times when American voters are choosing among candidates richly seasoned with political experience and those who are less experienced but perhaps more exciting alternatives.

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Excerpt: The main theories: THE CUBANS: President John Kennedy was killed by right-wing Cuban exiles who felt that he betrayed them by refusing to allow American forces to take part in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.

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He was convinced, two months before he too was assassinated – when he won the Democratic nomination to the presidency and announced that he was to reopen the case – that attempts to blame Cuba for the murder were part of a conspiracy of these groups, the possible perpetrators …

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He was the ultimate keeper of secrets, lurking in the shadows of American history. He toppled banana republics, planned the Bay of Pigs invasion and led the Watergate break-in. Now he would reveal what he'd always kept hidden: who killed JFK by ERIK HEDEGAARD

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20 Secrets of Howard Hunt

A good roundup of the life and career of Howard Hunt -- with all its bizarre ironies.

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Cuba on Wednesday condemned as "theft" the use of frozen Cuban assets in the United States to compensate the families of two Americans killed in the 1961 U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion.

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I do think it's mentioned this long national nightmare for the Cubans wouldn't have happened at all if not for a typically incompetent Democratic mission under Kennedy when he withdrew air cover from the Cubans during the Bay of Pigs at the last minute.

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"Cuban President Fidel Castro has marked the 45th anniversary of the failed US-backed invasion of the island, known as the Bay of Pigs.

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