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| 1960 | Eisenhower, Dwight David |  |
| 17th Mar The Eisenhower administration agrees to a recommendation from the CIA to equip and drill Cuban exiles for action against the new Castro government |
| 1961 | Dulles, Allen Welsh | |
| Bay of Pigs Resigns after the failure of the the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba |
| 1961 | Eisenhower, Dwight David | |
| The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations had judged that Castro's policies including the expropriation of USAassets on the island and Cuba's increasing ties with the Soviet Union could not be tolerated |
| 1961 | Hunt, Everette Howard | |
| Hunt helps plan the abortive, semi- farcical invasion of Cuba by a group of Florida exiles during the Bay of Pigs fiasco |
| 1961 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations had judged that Castro's policies including the expropriation of USAassets on the island and Cuba's increasing ties with the Soviet Union could not be tolerated |
| Vetoes the CIA plan to provide air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba |
| 17th April Bomber aircraft displaying Cuban Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria markings bomb the Cuban airfields of San Antonio de Los Ba¤os, Antonio Maceo International Airport, and the airfield at Ciudad Libertad |
| 17th April Bombing prior to the Bay of Pigs landing fails because the airstrikes are not continued as originally planned, limited by decisions at the highest level of USAgovernment |
| 17th April Four 2,400-ton chartered transports (named the Houston, Rio Escondido, Caribe, and Atlantico) transported 1,511 Cuban exiles to the Bay of Pigs on the Southern coast of Cuba |
| 17th April Kennedy decides against giving the faltering invasion USAair support (though four USApilots were killed in Cuba during the invasion) because of his opposition to overt intervention |
| 17th April Operation Puma, the code name given to the offensive counter air attacks against the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, called for 48 hours of air strikes |
| 1962 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 21st Dec Castro and James Donovan, a U.S. lawyer sign an agreement to exchange the 1,113 prisoners for $53 million USAdollars in food and medicine, the money is raised privately |
