Cuba under Fidel Castro Cuba and overthrow Castro; the plan resulted in the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961. On 15 April, CIA-supplied B-26's bombed three Cuban military airfields; the U.S. announced that the perpetrators were defecting Cuban air force pilots, but Castro exposed these claims as false flag misinformation. Fearing invasion, he ordered the arrest of between 20,000 and 100,000 suspected counter-revolutionaries, publicly proclaiming that "What the imperialists cannot forgive us, is that we have made a Socialist revolution under their noses". This was his first announcement that the government was socialist. The CIA and Democratic Revolutionary Front had based a 1,400-strong
CIA activities in Guatemala Board released ‘Report on the Guatemala Review’ which asserts that the CIA had sponsored multiple intelligence agencies that were infamous for inhumanities in Guatemala. The report states that a significant amount of the agency’s Guatemalan allies were believed to have been involved with numerous human rights violations in the region. According to the document, the CIA ignored the majority of these allegations between the mid 1980s and the early 1990s. After this information was unveiled in 1995, John Duetch, the Director of the CIA at that time, forced Terry Ward to retire, the CIA’s chief of the Latin American Division,