
Ep. 70: Bobby Kennedy and His Enemies (Part 2)
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
The History of the CIA's Plan to Overthrow Castro
In the first televised presidential debate with John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon said that JFK's idea for America to back an exiles force to overthrow Castro was already being planned by the CIA. Well, it turns out that everyone was wrong. After the debacle of Bay of Pigs, Bobby gets more authority to oversee Cuba policy and he ends up approving something known as Operation Mangoose. This was really a continuation of the CIA's planning to knock off Castro under Eisenhower, but this time it had presidential and presidential's brother attention. It would take nearly 15 years for the American people to learn the full extent of what the CIA had dreamed up duringOperation Mangoose; when the facts came out