The New CIA Director, John McCone

In November of 1961, with the efforts against Castro since the Bay of Pigs going nowhere, JFK and Bobby took Taylor's recommendations and put the SGA in charge. Operation Mongoose was the new nerve center for all things anti-Castro. The CIA got to work on training Cuban exiles on American soil near Palm Beach, Florida,. According to FBI reports, exile groups financially connected to mafia gamblers, Batistaianos were willing to support Mongoose's commando raids on Cuba.