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🐙THE BAY OF PIGS

“On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.”

It’s actually much more complicated than this headline portends.

I will dive more deeply into the CIA/mob’s role in Op Mongoose.
First read this article for a sanitized overview.

jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jf…
Read this white paper for a deeper dive.

Pg 29 onward to see where the op went sideways re issues about the planes issues (nosecones didn’t match Cuban planes) & Kennedy’s order to call off the air support for the Cuban exiles waiting on the beach head.

utdallas.edu/library/specia…
And this: #OpMongoose

📌Rafael Quintero (IranContra) had helped build the training camps in Guatemala, where the 1,500-strong force of Cuban exiles planned the Bay of Pigs invasion, before he slipped onto the island to prepare the ground.

utdallas.edu/library/specia…
📌The rout of the invaders turned into a fiasco, both for them and for JFK, who had supported the invasion but at the last minute withdrew vital US military air support. 118 died.
utdallas.edu/library/specia…
Between the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco and the assassination of JFK in 1963, which included the cliffhanger Soviet nuclear missile crisis of October 1962, Castro was Washington's main preoccupation and

utdallas.edu/library/specia…
📌Quintero's anti-Communist exile group received endless CIA funds and carte blanche to get rid of him one way or another.

📌Remember Anti-Communism (Socialism) & 💰are the raison d'être of the RW Neo Fascists 🐙 post WWII up to & including today.

utdallas.edu/library/specia…
BackgroundOp Mongoose

📌In 1960 Richard Bissell and Allen W. Dulles decided to work with the Mafia in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

📌Maheu (mob) was employed by the CIA to organize the conspiracy.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌Allan Dulles approved the Castro operation thus inferring that he would of been made aware of plans to approach Robert A. Maheu & Roselli (mob).

“Further our files reflect that Agency (CIA) people were aware of the operation.” #Mahue #Roselli

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📌The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work is that it provided CIA with a credible cover story. (Plausible deniability)

📌The Mafia were known to be angry with Castro for closing down their profitable brothels and casinos in Cuba.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌If the assassins were killed or captured the media would accept that the Mafia were working on their own.

📌Operation Mongoose was a clandestine CIA op—the goal was plausible deniability of the CIA’s involvement.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌In August 1960, Colonel Sheffield Edwards contacted Maheu.

📌As Maheu explained in 1995: "In the winter of 1959-60, however, the CIA still thought it could pull off the invasion (of Cuba).

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌But Edwards thought the odds might be better if the plan went one step further - the asassination of Fidel Castro.

The CIA needed someone to do the dirty work for it.

Professional killers. A gangland-style hit."

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌Maheu offered the contract to Johnny Roselli.

📌John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli, sometimes spelled Rosselli, was an influential mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization control Hollywood & the Las Vegas Strip In the early 1960s.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌I will dive deeper into Robert Maheu latter as he pops up in many other 🐙 ops.

Maheu is said to be the inspiration for “Mission Impossible” series.

He was Howard Hughes’ surrogate

Maheu - Hughes

nytimes.com/2008/08/07/us/…
📌Mahue has been recently implicated as the person who ordered Bobby Kennedy’s assassination.

📌Under Bobby Kennedy, one of the DOJ’s (& FBI & IRS) main focuses became the Mafia.

Maheu - RFK

washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0…
John Roselli

Shortly after John Rosselli testified before a Senate committee that he had participated in CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro, he was murdered.

nytimes.com/1977/02/25/arc…
📌Roselli in turn arranged for a meeting on 11th October, 1960, between Maheu and two leading mobsters, Santo Trafficante and Sam Giancana.

📌As Maheu pointed out, "both were among the ten most powerful Mafia members" in America.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
Maheu told the mobsters that the CIA was willing to pay $150,000 to have Castro killed.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
📌On 12th March, 1961, Maheu arranged for CIA operative, Jim O'Connell, to meet Roselli, Trafficante and Giancana at the Fontainebleau Hotel.

📌During the meeting O'Connell gave poison pills and $10,000 to Rosselli to be used against Fidel Castro.

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
Santo Trafficante

📌”Santo Trafficante Jr. was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States.

📌He headed the Trafficante crime family and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba.”

spartacus-educational.com/JFKmaheu.htm
Sam Giancana

Sam Giancana was a Sicilian American mobster, known for being the boss of the criminal Chicago Outfit from 1957 to 1966 and became a player on the national stage through shadowy ties to the Kennedys.

biography.com/crime-figure/s…
📌Giancana was murdered in 1975 in Chicago after his role in the Castro plot came to light, but before he could testify at congressional hearings investigating the CIA.

m.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/…
📌The mafia detested the Kennedy adm b/c they stepped up mob prosecutions.

🔑Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana secretly funded JFK election in the WV primary, but once in office, JFK distanced himself from Giancana—Giancana was not pleased.

businessinsider.com/frank-sinatra-…
📌Allen Dulles & the 🐙 whose interests (Oil/Steel/Banking/drugs/weapons/Human Trafficking, etc) he protected, also despised the JFK adm.

📌JFK sent Dulles & others in the CIA packing post the Bay of Pigs debacle.

foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/11/13/why…
Yes, the CIA Director (Allen Dulles) Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up

politico.com/magazine/story…
📌Allen Dulles is also rumored to have set up JFK in the BOP fiasco, specifically after his 3/1/61 speech.

JFK “Our Peace Corps is not designed as an instrument of diplomacy or propaganda or ideological conflict.” which is contrary to CIA’s covert ops.

jfklibrary.org/archives/other…
And this follow up speech:

ADDRESS AT A WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND FOR THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS,

MARCH 13, 1961

Dulles /🐙 wanted to continue the highly profitable covert ops to continue—NOT PEACE.

jfklibrary.org/archives/other…
Operation Mongoose was run out of
JMCLEAR is believed to stand for Air Operations during the Bay of Pigs Operation.

Air America supplied supplied the aircraft used in the anti-Castro operation. #IranContra #GoldenTriangle

utdallas.edu/library/specia…
Air America

📌To conclude, the Bay of Pigs was a major FUBAR, involving Cuban exiles, CIA & the mafia.

📌Who killed JFK is a mystery we may never resolve, but several had motive.

📌I may dive a bit deeper into it later & discuss additional Oswald, Ruby (mob) & Dulles connex.
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The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz

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📌The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, orchestrated by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax")

📌It was the first covert action conducted by the US to overthrow a foreign government during peacetime.
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📌It’s always about the oil.

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