The Medusa File by Roberts Craig

Author:Roberts, Craig [Roberts, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Trilogus Books
Published: 2010-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Though Kennedy considered the elimination of Castro his number one priority during this time frame, he no longer trusted the CIA to do it. But he found that getting rid of the CIA, as he had threatened, was almost impossible. The Agency had built strong proponents outside of, and above, the White House. The independent back-room power of the CIA reached from the meeting rooms of Washington to the board rooms of major corporations, and from allied intelligence organizations to international bankers. Kennedy had little choice but to allow the CIA to try yet again to eliminate the Castro regime.

Kennedy may not have been able to destroy the CIA, at least not at the moment, but he could at least control its operations by appointing a new director he could trust. His choice was John A. McCone, a bespectacled grandfatherly type who was loyal to the Kennedys. Under McCone, the operations against Cuba took on a different approach. Instead of a frontal assault on some beach, Castro would be eliminated by subversion and sabotage. This new onslaught, codenamed Operation MONGOOSE, began in October of 1961 when the remnants of the Brigade, bolstered by a few new recruits, started training in the Florida Everglades.

Coordinated out of Miami Station, Mongoose conducted 2123 missions into Cuba. They consisted of commando raids, sabotage attacks, propaganda efforts, intelligence missions, and supply missions to indigenous guerrilla groups. But over the life of Mongoose, the end evaluation was that it was too small, too late, and had too little bang-for-the-buck.

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