Purpose:
- Overtly, the mission's objective was to overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista's pro-communist government
- Covertly, the Bay of Pigs was planned by both CIA director Allen Dulles and President Eisenhower after Fidel Castro's July 26 revolution, to eliminate a new Marxist-Leninist state, and to destabilize the country enough to bring in a government more favorable to American business objectives