|
| |
Operation Mongoose
United States Foreign Policy makers concluded that Cuban President Fidel
Castro was unwilling to subjugate his country to the US. This was several years
before the US Congress forbade the Executive Branch of government from carrying
out covert actions leading to the assassinations of a foreign leader. Operation
Mongoose began a period of overt and covert attempts to destabilize Cuba, to
overthrow the government of Cuba, and to assassinate Castro. Years later,
reporters using the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the US Government
even hired the Mafia to carry out assassination attempts on Castro.
November 1, 1961:
In a memo to President Kennedy, Richard Goodwin, the White House specialist
on Latin America, advises that Attorney General Robert Kennedy would be the most
effective commander of a new plan to overthrow Prime Minister Castro: Operation
Mongoose. Goodwin and the Attorney General have been joined in planning
Operation Mongoose by CIA operative General Edward G. Lansdale, who engineered
the presidency of Ramón Magsaysay in the Philippines against the Hukbalahap
rebellion and then went to Vietnam where he set up the Saigon regime of Ngo Dinh
Diem.
|
