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Remember Operation Northwoods and Operation Mockingbird...and no doubt many others by the CIA, that we were never told of? This occurred in the 1960s. Is it likely the CIA is even worse today?
Operation Mongoose was exposed in the recent release of SOME of the long hidden JFK files. Guess what? The CIA wanted to murder people in a terror campaign designed to blame Castro, to shape public opinion.
Yet we have Americans today who still believe the CIA and anyone who disputes the many strange events like the JFK assassination, the coups in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere, 9/11, etc....are crazy conspiracy theorists.
Yeah...right. Why do any Americans trust their government?
CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Killing Refugees to Blame Castro
After Castro's revolution succeeded and thousands of Cubans fled to South Florida, the agency actually considered murdering a boatload of refugees, assassinating exile leaders, and planting bombs in Miami — all so Castro could be blamed for the chaos.
The basic idea was to turn world opinion against Castro and possibly justify a U.S. military invasion by pinning the atrocities on him. The details of the sinister plot are included in a summary about Operation Mongoose, a 1960 covert op hatched by the CIA under President Dwight Eisenhower with the aim of toppling Communist Cuba.
The campaign was included in a report on "pretexts" the U.S. could conjure up to justify a military intervention in Cuba. The paper was sent by Gen. Edward Landsdale, a top Cold War officer who worked with the CIA to plot out Operation Mongoose; he sent the report, which included nine other "pretexts," on April 12, 1962, to Gen. Maxwell Taylor, who would soon become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here's how the report described the plan:
Just to reiterate how crazy this idea is: The CIA thought about blowing stuff up in Florida and murdering innocent refugees simply to make Castro look bad.
Thankfully, that plot was apparently never carried out. The Mongoose doc includes other frightening plots hatched by the spooks in Washington, including an idea to use biological weapons to ruin Cuba's crops, possibly leading to famine and an uprising against Castro:
CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Killing Refugees to Blame Castro
Operation Mongoose was exposed in the recent release of SOME of the long hidden JFK files. Guess what? The CIA wanted to murder people in a terror campaign designed to blame Castro, to shape public opinion.
Yet we have Americans today who still believe the CIA and anyone who disputes the many strange events like the JFK assassination, the coups in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere, 9/11, etc....are crazy conspiracy theorists.
Yeah...right. Why do any Americans trust their government?
CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Killing Refugees to Blame Castro
After Castro's revolution succeeded and thousands of Cubans fled to South Florida, the agency actually considered murdering a boatload of refugees, assassinating exile leaders, and planting bombs in Miami — all so Castro could be blamed for the chaos.
The basic idea was to turn world opinion against Castro and possibly justify a U.S. military invasion by pinning the atrocities on him. The details of the sinister plot are included in a summary about Operation Mongoose, a 1960 covert op hatched by the CIA under President Dwight Eisenhower with the aim of toppling Communist Cuba.
The campaign was included in a report on "pretexts" the U.S. could conjure up to justify a military intervention in Cuba. The paper was sent by Gen. Edward Landsdale, a top Cold War officer who worked with the CIA to plot out Operation Mongoose; he sent the report, which included nine other "pretexts," on April 12, 1962, to Gen. Maxwell Taylor, who would soon become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here's how the report described the plan:
Just to reiterate how crazy this idea is: The CIA thought about blowing stuff up in Florida and murdering innocent refugees simply to make Castro look bad.
Thankfully, that plot was apparently never carried out. The Mongoose doc includes other frightening plots hatched by the spooks in Washington, including an idea to use biological weapons to ruin Cuba's crops, possibly leading to famine and an uprising against Castro:
CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Killing Refugees to Blame Castro