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News of the Restless <http://www.sabinabecker.com/> A door at the end of a dead-end street - About Me <http://www.sabinabecker.com/about-me> The Bay of Pigsfiasco or triumph?<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2011/04/the-bay-of-pigs-fiasco-or-triumph.html>April 19, 2011 Sabina Becker The Bay of Pigs invasion happened 50 years ago this week. What was the nature of the beast? It really depends on which side you sat. If you were on the US side, it was a fiasco; if Cubas, a triumph for the Cuban revolution. Heres a 45-minute documentary on a long-classified and very damning bit of intelligence related to that: *This video will be removed on April 29, 2011* *http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5612593921731677898&hl=en*<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5612593921731677898&hl=en> *#* ** *According to the evil folks at Google, this video will be removed ten days from now, so watch it while you still can.* And just to make sure things stay relevant long after the videos gone, heres a roundup of links relating to Playa Girón: *The Nation*s Jon Wiener takes a look at the lesson JFK failed to take away from Playa Girón.<http://www.thenation.com/blog/160011/bay-pigs-50-years-later-lessons-kennedy-never-learned>And no, it was NOT that the invasion would have succeeded if only it had had better intel or more air cover, as many insist was the case. The truth is, it was doomed to fail no matter what, because the Cuban people were serious about their revolution and willing to defend it to the death. It wasnt just the Brothers Castro, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and their rag-taggety bunch; it was the great majority of Cubans, and they fought back hard even with severely limited resources, and won. That had to be a bitter pill for the CIA-backed exiles (really, just émigrés) who landed on Girón Beach thinking they were going to have a cakewalk overthrowing Fidel. The only thing *they* walked into was a sure and certain stint in jail. As for the Cuban Missile Crisis that followed in the months shortly thereafter, you may be surprised to learn that the real hero was *Nikita Khrushchev.* For it was he who secured from JFK the promise of no further invasions of Cubaat Playa Girón or anywhere. Unfortunately, Cubas gain was Vietnams loss. The war begun there by Eisenhower got ramped up after JFK was assassinated. Hey, * someone* had to show them dirty commies Meanwhile, at *OpEdNews*, Kevin Gosztola delves into<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Official-History-of-the-by-Kevin-Gosztola-110418-220.html>Peter Kornbluhs fight to get the CIAs Bay of Pigs documentsALL OF THEMreleased. Why are they still considered too important to declassify after all this time? Well, the video above should be an indication. The CIA knew full well that an invasion was bound to fail, and they went for it anyway. A vendetta against Fidel? Mafia-style? Yep, thats exactly what it was. The mob ran the casinos, all of them, on the island. When Fidel & Co. shut them down, that spelled more than a million dollars a day in lost gambling revenues for the Mafia. They would have to make up for it in drug trafficking. Heroin had yet to reach the peak of popularity it did in the late 1960s, when the Vietnam war was at its height. It didnt help, either, that Bobby Kennedy was his brothers attorney general, and he was serious about gang-busting. Something had to give. Guess what that something was. And when that failed, something else would end up giving and you can watch the Zapruder film to see how *that* went. (You may also be interested to know that Lee Harvey Oswald was, as he said, just a patsy and that the real assassins were supplied by the selfsame Mafias ex-Cuban division, using a notorious Corsican mercenary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Sarti> who would himself be gunned downin Mexico City in 1972.) And finally, for those who want to hear the Cuban side from their own lips, in their own language, the VTV media-crit show *La Hojilla* was recently in Havana, where they shot two episodes at the Round Table with leading revolutionary figures and historians, thoroughly debunking the nonsense that still prevails in the United States of Amnesia. Heres the first<http://www.vtv.gob.ve/videos-emisiones-anteriores/59627>; heres the second <http://www.vtv.gob.ve/videos-emisiones-anteriores/59677>. Enjoy! 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