How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis
Geopolitical Economy Report
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Edward Lansdale's Plan to Overthrow Castro
Edward Lansdale felt that the CIA's initial steps post-bay pigs were too weak and not as ambitious. He thought you could really mobilize the population if you were clever enough to rise up. And he wanted to throw everything at the Cuban regime, the underworld, organized crime, the church, women's groups,. labor groups, students, and other groups.
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