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Operation Mongoose

Operation Mongoose

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Sep 11, 2026

Marcus SommersHOST
64:43
Oh yeah.
Marcus SommersHOST
64:45
Operation Mongoose, which was Washington secret war on Cuba.
Marcus SommersHOST
64:53
I told my wife, it got so bad.
Marcus SommersHOST
64:56
They were about to do the false flag of false flag operations.
NikkiHOST
22:40
Because Bobby was obsessed with Cuba and Fidel Castro.
NikkiHOST
22:46
On November 30th, 1961, at Bobby's suggestion, Jack authorized Operation Mongoose.
NikkiHOST
22:54
I can't remember if we talked about this in the Jack stuff.
NikkiHOST
22:58
I know we talked about Cuba and things.
NikkiHOST
23:03
You want me to talk about it? Sure, because it's kind of my thing.
NikkiHOST
23:05
Yeah, do it.
JoyHOST
23:06
So Operation Mongoose had to do with setting up training camps within the U.S., um this was by the cia to train some
NikkiHOST
23:20
cuban exiles okay so we talked to tiny no no i'm gonna i'm just interrupting for a minute you're gonna keep going because i still don't i'm okay but i remember the cuban exiles of it all and that they were trained by cia so this was the operation that did yeah
Justin WolfersHOST
4:10
He's saying, "We're going to rain down fury like you've never seen before." W-what was actually qu- quite striking was I was watching financial markets while Scott Bravado was giving the, uh, laying out Operation Economic Outcast.
Justin WolfersHOST
4:26
By the way, Kennedy's, I think, was called Operation Mongoose.
Justin WolfersHOST
4:28
So that right there is this difference in can I, can we call it toxic masculinity? Um-
AugustaUNKNOWN
4:35
[chuckles]
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
52:02
We all know that the...
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
52:04
The overall operation for the Miami station was called Operation Mongoose at the strategic level.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
52:11
They had Operation 40 at the operational level, and then they had JM Wave that did all the tactical pieces.
Towner-WatkinsGUEST
52:20
And all of the Cuban exiles that were implicated in the JFK assassination came out of this organization.
Jim LeeGUEST
20:41
The goal was to kill Castro's sugar crops.
Jim LeeGUEST
20:44
This actually came up in the recent JFK file releases, and it was something mentioned about Project Mongoose.
Jim LeeGUEST
20:55
So I, to this day, have not been able to get a name of the official project for the weather warfare that was done against Cuba because it does not exist.
Jim LeeGUEST
21:05
But Project Mongoose was... briefly mentioned in the JFK files.
Jim LeeGUEST
21:12
Um, and it seems like it may have fell under that umbrella.
Jim LeeGUEST
21:15
I haven't updated weather modification, history.com timeline entry on the weather warfare against Cuba with an official name, because I like to double, triple check to make sure I'm right before I go telling everybody this is the truth.
speaker_6AUDIENCE
84:16
It seems like he seems to think that that might even be an informant in that, in operating in that area.
speaker_6AUDIENCE
84:23
And then if I'm not mistaken, this, this all is taking place, Cuban Missile, all of this is taking place during the same time as Operation Mongoose.
speaker_6AUDIENCE
84:32
So I, I would bet that his suspicion was pretty high at that time.
speaker_6AUDIENCE
84:38
And then the last thing I noted was that, um, his, oh, his betrayal and his, his anger, uh, for Mr. K., um, for pulling those, uh, Soviet missiles from Cuba.
speaker_6AUDIENCE
84:53
And that's all I had.
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
84:59
Mr. K. indeed.
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
85:01
Uh, Operation Mongoose for listeners who might not be familiar with, uh, Cold War US-Cuban conflict, uh, from the 1960s.
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
85:20
Oh, did we miss you, sir? Are you still there?
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
58:23
The most ironic of these plots took place on November 22, 1963, the very day President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, when a CIA official offered a poison pen to a Cuban for use against Castro, while at the same time an emissary from President Kennedy was meeting with Castro to explore the possibility of improved relations.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
58:43
Operation Mongoose.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
58:45
In November 1962, President Kennedy issued a memorandum recording his decision to begin the Mongoose Project to use our available assets to help Cuba overthrow the communist regime.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
58:56
The ultimate objective of Mongoose was to have the people themselves overthrow the Castro regime rather than U.S. engineered efforts from outside Cuba.
Hasan MinhajHOST
9:21
That all changed in 1959 when Fidel Castro led a revolution that turned Cuba into a front line in the Cold War.
Hasan MinhajHOST
9:27
In 1961, after a failed coup attempt at the Bay of Pigs, JFK approved a CIA program called Operation Mongoose to undermine the Cuban government with sabotage against civilian and military targets.
Hasan MinhajHOST
9:39
It set in motion decades of CIA attempts to assassinate Castro.
Hasan MinhajHOST
9:44
There were reportedly over 600 attempts on Castro's life, including with exploding cigars and a poison wetsuit.
Justin WolfersHOST
4:03
Fast-forward to twenty twenty-six, and Donald Trump promises economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.
Justin WolfersHOST
4:11
In nineteen sixty-two, the planners of Operation Mongoose wrote down the overthrow of the Castro government as America's ultimate objective.
Justin WolfersHOST
4:19
In twenty twenty-six, Bessent says we are going to collapse this regime.
Justin WolfersHOST
4:26
Then there were victory laps.

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