Marxism–Leninism Cuban Revolution, led by Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara, overthrew the régime (1925–1959) of Fulgencio Batista to establish the Republic of Cuba, a Communist state recognised by the Soviet Union. In response, the United States attempted a coup d'état against the Castro government, such as the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion (April 1961), by anti-communist Cuban exiles, sponsored by the CIA. The next year, there occurred the Cuban missile crisis (October 1962), a diplomatic dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of medium-range, Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union resolved the nuclear-missile crisis
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,