This is why the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba failed
In terms of global influence and prestige, The Bay of Pigs is one of the most unanticipated events to befall America since the British attacked the White House in 1812….
The 6 most insane obsessions of the world’s craziest dictators
Most of us will never know for sure, but there must be something about absolute power that drives a person absolutely insane. For some reason, the dictators that capture and…
This is what happened to Che Guevara, the notorious Cuban guerrilla
Most people these days are familiar with the image of Che Guevara, the Cuban guerrilla and later military leader who helped Fidel Castro and Cuban communists take over the island…
Fidel Castro survived more than 600 CIA assassination attempts
In 2006, BBC’s Channel 4 aired a documentary film called, “638 Ways to Kill Castro” which detailed the more complex and outright bizarre ways the American Central Intelligence Agency attempted…
Today in military history: Cuban Missile Crisis ends
On Oct. 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end. Two weeks before, the U.S. and Soviet Union began a tense political and military confrontation over the installation…
The CIA secretly created an undetectable ‘heart attack gun’
The Cold War must have been an amazing time to be a weapons manufacturer for the U.S. government. Like some kind of early Tony Stark (I guess that would be Howard Stark), if you could dream it, you could build it, and chances were very good the CIA …