Operation 40 necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents...We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time." The group sought to incite civil war in Cuba against the government of prime minister Fidel Castro. "In October 1960, they realize that this project has failed, and that is when Brigade 2506" was created, a CIA-sponsored group made up of 1,511 Cuban exiles who fought in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. On 17 April 1961, Vicente Leon Leon, with other members of Operation 40, landed at the Bay of Pigs via the CIA-chartered freighter "Atlantico".
Workers' Central Union of Cuba Workers' Central Union of Cuba The Workers Central Union of Cuba (CTC) is the trade union federation in Cuba. It originated as the "Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba" (Confederation of Cuban Workers) in 1939 and changed its name to the Central Union of Cuban Workers in 1961. The CTC unites 19 sectoral unions, organised in more than 81,000 workplaces, with elected municipal, provincial and national committees for each union, with all Cuban workers belonging to this trade union federation. The CTC also has a weekly newspaper, "Trabajadores". In the 1930s, the Cuban labor movement declined after an unsuccessful general strike