A Quote by Robert Dallek

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

Robert Dallek

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Robert Dallek
American - Historian
Born: May 16, 1934

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