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	Operation Mongoose
		Operation Mongoose, as the effort was called, was launched in late 1961 and placed under the command of Brig.
		Early in the operation, on February 20, 1962, Lansdale issued an action plan stating that "all media" would be put to use to tarnish Castro's image.
		In late 1961, a Mongoose task force was created which brought together officials from the CIA, the U.S. Information Agency and the departments of State and Defense.
	members.iimetro.com.au /~hubbca/operation_mongoose.htm (1328 words)

	Operation Mongoose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Mongoose was a special operation by the British operating from bases in India during World War II training Karen tribesmen in Burma to harass the Japanese rear.
		Operation Mongoose was the insertion of a three-man American team by parachute near Stresa, Italy on the night of September 26, 1944 to establish a local partisan network.
		Operation Mongoose, also known as the "Cuban Project" is the general name for CIA covert operations and plans from 1961-1962 to destabilize and overthrow the Communist government in Cuba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Mongoose (179 words)

	Cuban Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose) is the general name for CIA covert operations and plans initiated by President John F. Kennedy on November 30, 1961.
		The operation was led by Air Force General Edward Lansdale and came into being after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
		Operation Northwoods was a 1962 plan, which was signed by the Chairman of the Join Cheifs of Staff and presented to the Secretary of Defense for approval, that intended to use false flag operations in order to justify intervention in Cuba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cuban_Project (768 words)

	Operation Mongoose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was in fall of 1961 that Operation Mongoose began.
		The main reason for Mongoose's poor performance was that Kennedy had the same idea as that of the Bay of Pigs invasion; he was under the impression that Cubans had something against Castro and wanted to have him overthrown.
		Mongoose was the largest operation, with a budget of fifty million and four hundred agents from the force, along with thousands of Cuban agents (Eubank, 2000, p.
	www.webspawner.com /users/condormongoose/index.html (205 words)

	Operation Mongoose
		This program was codenamed Operation Mongoose and much of the remainder of the volume after November 1961 is devoted to documenting Operation Mongoose.
		Oversight for Operation Mongoose was provided by the 5412/Special Group expanded to include General Taylor and Attorney General Kennedy.
		Planning for Operation Mongoose was given additional impetus in the spring of 1962 by reports of expanded arms shipments from the Soviet Union to Cuba.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/ops/mongoose.htm (1741 words)

	Operation Northwoods
		The operation, code named Operation Northwoods, was part of the larger Operation Mongoose program.
		Operation Northwoods was submitted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962.
		The objective of Operation Northwoods was to concoct a "Remember the Maine" incident and win mass support for an invasion of Cuba.
	www.americanhiroshima.info /operationnorthwoods.htm (294 words)

	Operation Mongoose - █ FURTHER READING:
		Mongoose was, in essence, a continuation of a secret operation against the Cuban regime that began during the Eisenhower Administration.
		Psychological operations (PsyOps) such as propaganda and staged incidents were part of the plan, but Mongoose also contained provisions for far more ambitious physical threats to Castro and his allies.
		Operation Mongoose explored several possible means by which to carry out the assassination.
	www.espionageinfo.com /Nt-Pa/Operation-Mongoose.html (680 words)

	CIA: OPERATION MONGOOSE – The Plot To Assassinate Fidel Castro – Part 2 of Trilogy (tabacco.blog-city.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose is the general name for CIA covert operations and plans initiated by President John F. Kennedy on November 30, 1961 which authorized aggressive covert assault on Communism in the Cuban Republic.
		The operation was suspended on October 30, 1962, but three of ten six-man sabotage teams had already been deployed to Cuba, and on November 8, 1962, one six-man CIA team blew up a Cuban industrial facility.
		Indeed, from the Bay of Pigs and the Operation Mongoose Castro assassination plots of the 1960s, to the Watergate Plumbers Unit of the 1970s, to the Iran-Contra narco-financed insurgency of the 1980s, this circle of right-wing CIA operators and closely allied Cuban exiles, has represented an ugly stain on the American political landscape.
	tabacco.blog-city.com /cia_operation_mongoose__the_plot_to_assassinate_fidel_castro.htm (6449 words)

	The Avalon Project : The Cuban Missile Crisis
		At 2:30 this afternoon, the Attorney General convened in his office a meeting on Operation Mongoose consisting of General Lansdale and Colonel Patchell, General Johnson of the Joint Staff, Robert Hurwitch of State (vice Ed Martin who was unable to attend), Hewson Ryan of USIA, and the undersigned.
		He pointed out that the Operation had been under way for a year, that the results were discouraging, that there had been no acts of sabotage, and that even the one which had been attempted had failed twice.
		I pointed out, however, that the objective of Operation Mongoose would have to be determined at some point since the Cubans with whom we have to work were seeking a reason for risking their lives in these operations.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cuba019.htm (615 words)

	Operation Mongoose: The Cuba Project
		Since this is an operation to prompt and support a revolt by the people in a Communist police state, flexibility is a must for success.
		The operational plan for clandestine U.S. support of a Cuban movement inside Cuba to overthrow the Communist regime is within policy limits already set by the President.
		This operation, in response to early recommendation as essential by the Chief of Operations, is moving at utmost speed to become fully active by 15 March, with a new building completed and occupied, and with a staff of 42 at work.
	karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Bay_of_Pigs/mongooseDoc1.htm (4085 words)

	Operation Northwoods: Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba
		The Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, has requested that he be furnished the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this matter by 13 March 1962.
		As requested* by Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are to indicate brief but precise description of pretexts which they consider would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.
		Reference is made to memorandum from Chief of Operations, Cuba Project, for General Craig, subject: "Operation MONGOOSE", dated 5 March 1962, which requested brief but precise description of pretexts which the Joint Chiefs of Staff consider would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba.
	www.geocities.com /tetrahedronomega (3433 words)

	Operation Mongoose: History
		On 7th April, 1964, the SGA officially brought an end to the sabotage operations against Cuba.
		So he was involved in Mongoose because of the location (of his ranch), and it was a nice place to have meetings and they had meetings there.
		The CIA brags that its operations in Iran in 1953 led to the pro-Western attitude of that important country.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKmongoose.htm (1906 words)

	Center for International Policy
		If there was a single theme underlying the two days of discussions, it was the role of Operation Mongoose as a catalyst for the crisis.
		Mongoose was getting well under way when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's son-in-law, A. Adzhubei, met with President Kennedy in Washington in January 1962.
		``To the extent that Operation Mongoose exceeded these nonviolent objectives of the president, and speaking only for myself, not the U.S. government, not even for President Kennedy, long since dead, to the extent that these nonviolent objectives were exceeded by operations of Mongoose.
	www.ciponline.org /cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/mh101902bohning.htm (1132 words)

	The Militant - October 7, 2002 -- Operation Mongoose: President Kennedy’s plan to invade Cuba
		Edward Lansdale, an expert on guerrilla and antisubversive operations, would be in charge of designing the project, under the direct supervision of the attorney general.
		This draft of Operation Mongoose was discussed and approved by Group 5412 without changing or amending any of the projected tasks.
		In short, the operation was aimed at provoking a "revolt" of the Cuban people, which once begun would lay the basis for direct military intervention by the armed forces of the United States and its Latin American allies.
	www.themilitant.com /2002/6637/663750.html (1723 words)

	Operation Mongoose: The Cuba Project
		Since this is an operation to prompt and support a revolt by the people in a Communist police state, flexibility is a must for success.
		The operational plan for clandestine U.S. support of a Cuban movement inside Cuba to overthrow the Communist regime is within policy limits already set by the President.
		This operation, in response to early recommendation as essential by the Chief of Operations, is moving at utmost speed to become fully active by 15 March, with a new building completed and occupied, and with a staff of 42 at work.
	www.marxists.org /history/cuba/subject/cia/mongoose/c-project.htm (4088 words)

	UtopiaX.org - OPERATION NORTHWOODS
		This document, titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba” was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods.
		Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba.
		Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.”
	www.utopiax.org /operation_northwoods.html (184 words)

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		Operation Northwoods was a plan by the highest US military authorities to create a series of incidents involving loss of American and Cuban exile lives through the actions of phony Cubans in order to persuade the US public to go to war against Cuba.
		Craig was CIA and was at the time Project Officer for the Cuba Project (Operation Mongoose) under Operations Chief Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, famed for his psyops.
		In late 1961, a Mongoose task force was created which brought together officials from the CIA, the U.S. Information Agency and the departments of State and Defense.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /news/northwoods/northwoods.htm (3550 words)

	Program Review by the Chief of Operations, Operation Mongoose (Lansdale), 18
		The failure of the U.S.-sponsored operation in April 1961 so shook the faith of Cuban patriots in U.S. competence and intentions in supporting a revolt against Castro that a new effort to generate a revolt against the regime in Cuba must have active support from key Latin American countries.
		Status: Both State and CIA are continuing to explore their capabilities (with results largely negative to date) for mounting special group operations inside Cuba focused upon dynamic elements of the population, particularly [1 line of source text not declassified] through Labor contacts to reach the workers.
		Since the President directed that the Chief of Operations conduct the Project through the appropriate organizations and Departments of the Government, and since these U.S. organizations are mainly in the initial inventory and development of capabilities phase concerning assigned tasks, a precise operations timetable as of today would be too speculative to be useful.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/cuba/mongoose.htm (2944 words)

	portland imc - 2002.11.02 - CIA Declassified docs on Cuba: Operation Mongoose (A must read) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is NOT the "Operation Mongoose" documents, and it's not a new release either.
		The name of the operation plan was "Operation Northwoods," not "Operation Mongoose," as you title your posts.
		The Defense Department already maintains a secretive counter-terror operations group known as Delta Force that is called in when a crisis happens; P2OG would focus its efforts on preventing those crises from even occurring in the first place.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/11/31116.shtml (2488 words)

	Cuba in the Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century of Terror
		The chief of Mongoose operations, Edward Lansdale, provided a timetable leading to "open revolt and overthrow of the Communist regime" in October 1962.
		These and subsequent terrorist operations were carried out from US territory, though by then they were regarded as criminal acts by the FBI.
		The perpetrators were Salvadoran criminals operating under the direction of Luis Posada Carriles and financed in Miami.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/1024-06.htm (2685 words)

	SPSS Inc. — Press Releases
		Founded in 1994, Operation Mongoose is a partnership of various branches of the DoD, including agencies such as the U.S. Secret Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Social Security Administration.
		Operation Mongoose examines several functional areas such as retired and annuitant pay, military pay, civilian pay, transportation pay and vendor pay.
		Since its establishment, Operation Mongoose has analyzed over tens of millions of financial transactions to detect potential cases of erroneous payment or fraud.
	www.spss.com /press/template_view.cfm?PR_ID=136 (510 words)

	American Experience \| RFK \| People & Events \| PBS
		Kennedy's term of art was "counterinsurgency," also described as "social reform under pressure." He was so enamored of the fearless commandos and real-life James Bonds who did such work that he once invited Special Forces troops to Hickory Hill to instruct his children how to swing from trees.
		The man RFK chose to run the operation was legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, whose exploits fighting Communists in the Philippines in the 1950s made him a model for a character in Graham Greene's novel, The Quiet American.
		Playing on Kennedy's desperation and distaste for bureaucratic inertia, Landsdale hatched a series of operations which were to climax in a "Touchdown Play" by October 1962.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rfk/peopleevents/e_mongoose.html (1185 words)

	Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan
		Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) further validated the urgent need of strategic reach-back communications from the Area of Operations (AOR) to the Continental United States (CONUS).
		Key factors in their assessment were persistence (the ability to maintain round-the-clock surveillance), integration at the tactical and operational levels of intelligence from many sources, and the ability to control data collection.
		Operation of humanitarian drop zone by the C-17 reservists; Activities of KC-135 and KC-10 as pump fuel to bombers aircraft; Security operation for suspicious packages by the reserve security forces specialists.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/endfreed.htm (9533 words)

	JFK Assassination Records Review Board Releases Top Secret Records
		This is one of the CIA documents describing their operations in Mexico City (noted by symbol LI) and Oswald's trip there in October 1963.
		In the meantime the trial was postponed until 3 January [sic], and the FBI released to the press information that their investigation confirms OSWALD's guilt, and that he had no accomplices.
		This is a red line operation with the blessing of the President and approved by him as a most important task.
	www.indiana.edu /~oah/nl/98feb/jfk.html (3541 words)

	FRUS 1961-63, Vol. XI Cuba: 331-345 documents and memos
		After the failure of the invasion of Cuba word was sent through Maheu to Rosselli to call off the operation and Rosselli was told to tell his principal that the proposal to pay one hundred fifty thousand dollars for completion of the operation had been definitely withdrawn.
		Purpose: For the guidance of Operation Mongoose personnel, particularly in the selection and readying of agents to ensure that they are committed to acceptable political beliefs before introduction into Cuba.
		This could be operating in time to exploit the 26 July anniversary of Castro's attack upon government forces at Santiago de Cuba in 1953, for "the revolution" he has now betrayed.
	www.fas.org /irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/331_345.html (7031 words)

	FRUS 1961-63, Vol. XI Cuba: 376-390 documents and memos
		Cuba is also of value to the USSR as an operational base from which the revolution in Latin America can be furthered by propaganda, the indoctrination and training of militants, gun-running, and other clandestine operations.
		Also, the "noise level" of Mongoose operations will probably rise in the course of the new phase and there will always be the chance that the participation of some U.S. citizens may become known.
		While retaining as its eventual objective the overthrow of the target government, the objective of the Mongoose program during Phase II will be the further containment, undermining and discrediting of the target regime while isolating it from other Hemisphere nations.
	www.fas.org /irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/376_390.html (8679 words)

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