The Bay of Pigs Plan

In March of 1962, months after the creation of WH4, Eisenhower approved a much more ambitious anti-Castro program. By mid-August of 1960, Eisenhower formally approved in a meeting a $13 million budget for a plan to overthrow Castro. Alan Dulles laid out the four key axes of the operation that Ike had pushed for and got some months earlier. This is where I think historians and scholars generally designate the Bay of Pigs plan, as we know it specifically, to come into focus.