Operation Mongoose: Most aggressive program against a sovereign country in the sixties
Courtesy Internet
Published at: 30/11/2025 08:06 AM
On November 30, 1962, the then President of the United States, John Kennedy, imposed Operation Mongoose against the Republic of Cuba. Considered to be the most aggressive program against a sovereign country in the 1960s.
Cuba suffered more than 5,000 acts of sabotage and terrorist actions in less than 10 months as part of this operation planned by the United States National Security Council.
Operation Magosta was created after the political and military defeat of the United States in April 1961 in Playa Girón. This action plan consisted of 32 tasks that were divided as follows: 13 economic war tasks, 6 political tasks, 5 military tasks, 4 intelligence tasks, 4 ideological political subversion tasks and 1 biological war where the US sabotaged the sugar harvest of the Antillean country. In addition, the attacks against the Cuban leader, Fideo Castro.
The CIA, complicit in the interference, whose main strategy was to end the Cuban Revolution and install a de facto government under imperial services. Despite the fact that the operation officially ended at the end of 1962, Cuba is still fighting in defense of its sovereignty.
Mazo News Team