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Operation Mongoose was a secret program against Cuba that aimed to remove the Cuban government from power, and to force the Cuban government to introduce intrusive civil measures and divert precious resources to protect its citizens from the attacks.
William King "Bill" Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, best known for his role in the terrorism and sabotage campaign known as Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by Edward Lansdale. [1]
JMWAVE began as the operations center for Task Force W, the CIA's unit dedicated to Operation Mongoose, [3] [7] [8] a U.S. effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's Communist government in Cuba. JMWAVE was also active in some form during the failed U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961. [9]
A prime example is one of the newly disclosed documents — a seven-page Aug. 31, 1962, Defense Department memo about Operation Mongoose, the secret operation to overthrow Fidel Castro’s ...
In November 1961, he authorized Operation Mongoose. [212] In March 1962, Kennedy rejected Operation Northwoods, proposals for false flag attacks against American military and civilian targets, [213] and blaming them on the Cuban government to gain approval for a war against Cuba. However, the administration continued to plan for an invasion of ...
Operation MONGOOSE was a year-long U.S. government effort to overthrow the government of Cuba. [150] The operation included an embargo against Cuba, "to induce failure of the Communist regime to supply Cuba's economic needs", a diplomatic initiative to isolate Cuba, and psychological operations "to turn the peoples' resentment increasingly ...
Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government , and use them to justify a ...
Luigi Mangione, who authorities accuse of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly wrote in a notebook that he considered bombing Manhattan to carry out the killing but did not ...