How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis
Geopolitical Economy Report
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The Role of William Harvey in J. M. Wave
Lansdale arranges for Bill Harvey to or I don't know if it's Lansdale, but however it ends up, William Harvey is becomes the chief of J. M. Wave. He has a huge role in Mongoose and eventually he taps shackly to be the head of J.M. Wave. Shackley had previously tried to organize the ZR rifle to kill Castro. And he's involved in all of these operations. So it's a big thing with 600 CIA officers, 5000 CIA contractors, and they had this big Navy as well. One of their actually sort of successful missions was this team Cobra infiltration of the Pinar del Rio province. This involved getting 100 agents
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