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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 | Bissell, Richard | |
| As a result of the failure, CIA director Allen Dulles , deputy CIA director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell were all forced to resign |
| 1961 | Cabell, Charles | |
| As a result of the failure, CIA director Allen Dulles , deputy CIA director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell were all forced to resign |
| 1961 | Dulles, Allen Welsh | |
| As a result of the failure, CIA director Allen Dulles , deputy CIA director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell were all forced to resign |
| Assures Kennedy that invasion of Cuba will result in the overthrow of Castro |
| 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 | |
| As a result of the failure, CIA director Allen Dulles , deputy CIA director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell were all forced to resign |
| Permits the CIA invasion of Cuba but refuses to supply conventional USAforces |
| Vetoes the CIA plan to provide air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba |
| 17th Feb Kennedy asked Asks advisors whether the toppling of Castro might be related to weapon shipments and if it was possible to claim the real targets were modern fighter aircraft and rockets which endangered America's securit |
| 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 |
| 20th April The invasion force of Cuban exiles has been killed or captured by Castro |
| 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 |
