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The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish de Playa or de de Cochinos or Batalla de was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade on April A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States governments Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade fronted t