Bay of Pigs Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Playa Girón or Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos or Batalla de Girón) was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military group (made up of mostly Cuban exiles who traveled to the United States after Castro's takeover, but also some US military personnel), trained and funded by the CIA, Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro.
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris journal, then in the 10/18 series and finally reedited by Christian Bourgois. "HTMLGIANT"s Lily Hoang reviewed it favorably stating "Georges Perec is charming, the most charming man I will never meet, and "An Attempt" is yet another charming example of his charm." An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, (French: "Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien") is a short (roughly 60 pages) book by Georges Perec written in October 1974 and published in 1975. It is a collection of observations which Perec wrote as he sat in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris. Rather