Daily Archives for 17 March 2014


March 17: Plan to Overthrow Castro

On 17 March 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan to overthrow Castro. This plan was put together by the CIA and Eisenhower’s approval let the CIA begin to turn their plan into reality. The plan was simple. The anti-Castro-exile army’s objective was to overthrow Fidel Castro’s dictatorship in Cuba. The army that was being […]