CIA Issues A Coin Commemorating ‘Never Realized’ Bay Of Pigs Victory

This silver coin commemorating an anticipated (but never realized) Bay of Pigs victory features an outline of Cuba with a rebel invader advancing past a fallen member of Castro's military in the foreground.#HISTINT #Museum
— CIA (@CIA) May 25, 2021

Mediate: CIA Ridiculed for Coin Commemorating ‘Never Realized’ Bay of Pigs Victory: ‘What is This, a Participation Trophy?’

The Central Intelligence Agency is promoting a silver coin that commemorates “an anticipated (but never realized) Bay of Pigs victory,” which raises a number of questions: 1) when did the CIA get into the commemorative coin racket? and 2) Who the hell thought it was a good idea to commemorate failed missions?

The answer to the first question, fortunately, is nobody. The coin promoted by the CIA’s official Twitter feed is not the sort of coin one can buy as a keepsake, but rather an archived and historic artifact for viewing. According to the promotional tweet, the coin features “an outline of Cuba with a rebel invader advancing past a fallen member of Castro’s military in the foreground.”

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Update: CIA commemorates 60-year anniversary of one of its most infamous failures in history – Bay of Pigs invasion – with ‘victory’ coin (RT)

WNU Editor: You gotta be kidding me.