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In the Oliver Stone film JFK, Operation Mongoose is portrayed in flashback sequences as a training ground where, among others, Lee Harvey Oswald becomes versed in anti-Castro militia tactics. In the third season of Godfather of Harlem a fictional version of Operation Mongoose is shown as being based in New York.
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]
These included the famous "Operation Mongoose" (aka "The Cuban Project"). The aim of this was to "help Cubans (exiles) overthrow the Communist regime" (of Fidel Castro Ruz). During this period as Miami Station Chief, Shackley was in charge of about 400 agents and general operatives (as well as a huge flotilla of boats), and his tenure there ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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