What was the name of the failed 1961 US-backed invasion of Cuba?

What was the name of the failed 1961 US-backed invasion of Cuba? The answer is the Bay of Pigs invasion.

The invasion began on April 17, 1961, when roughly 1,400 Cuban exiles, organized as Brigade 2506 and supported by the United States government, landed at Playa Girón on Cuba’s southwestern coast. Their goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government and inspire a broader uprising. Instead, Cuban government forces defeated the invasion within about three days, and the surviving invaders surrendered on April 20.

The operation had been developed during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency but was carried out after John F. Kennedy took office. Kennedy approved the plan but limited overt American involvement, including canceling further air support. That decision helped doom the invasion and exposed the depth of U.S. opposition to Castro.

Operation Pluto and Operation Zapata were not the invasion’s usual public name. They were code names for earlier or revised versions of the plan. The location, Bahía de Cochinos, translates into English as the Bay of Pigs.