The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose, was an extensive campaign of terrorist attacks against civilians, and covert operations, carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence …

The CIA formulated a plan to recruit Cuban exiles living in the Miami area. It would train and equip the exiles to infiltrate Cuba and start a revolution to ignite an uprising across the island and …

Two days earlier, eight CIA-supplied B-26 bombers had attacked Cuban airfields and then returned to the U.S. On the night of 17 April, the main invasion force landed on the beach at …

Mar 26, 2025 · Six decades later, Americans know a bit more about the CIA’s clandestine operations in the early 1960s, particularly in Cuba and Mexico, thanks to a new tranche of …

Oct 27, 2009 · The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed 1961 attack by the CIA during the John F. Kennedy administration to drive Cuba’s communist leader Fidel Castro from power.

Mar 24, 2025 · Documents show that in December 1963, the CIA director’s office was receiving messages from and replying to operatives in Cuba seeking to undermine the government …

Mar 21, 2025 · The Kennedy administration inherited two profound problems, both intertwined, when JFK entered office in 1961: Cuba and the CIA. With the new tranche of documents, we …

Oct 3, 2019 · The day after Castro’s troops rounded up the last of the CIA’s Cuban exile brigade, April 20, the CIA had a commando unit of 35 exiles, a dozen agents or radio operators ready …

Mar 21, 2025 · His books include Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana and Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the …

Mar 20, 2025 · Newly released JFK assassination records show details of covert CIA operations in Cuba but ‘nothing points to a second gunman’ BY John Hanna , Jamie Stengle and The …