The Cuban Exile Invasion Force

Brigade 2506 was the Cuban exile invasion force of 1960s. Brigade's name came from a bit of CIA trickery, says Peter Wyden. The idea was that should these exiles become captured upon arrival or upon landing inside of Cuba, they would say, oh my god look how big this invasion force is. According to an oral history published by brigade 2506 members after the Bay of Pigs, the brigadiers began to fuel the operation shift from those you know, guerrilla infiltration routes to the invasion strike force being imagined at the highest levels of the CIA.