1961–1962Reputable sourceWell documented

Operation Mongoose

On the timeline · around 1961–1962 ·

What happened

After the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedys launched Operation Mongoose, an aggressive covert campaign of sabotage and subversion aimed at bringing down Castro's government, run from the CIA's giant Miami station and overseen with the personal involvement of Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Why it matters

Mongoose intensified the secret war on Cuba and kept the assassination plots alive, forming the backdrop to the tensions that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Sources

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. The Bay of Pigs Invasion and its Aftermath, April 1961–October 1962 · Reputable source

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