First page of minutes of a meeting on Operation Mongoose (4 October 1962)
The Cuba project (also known as Operation Mongoose) is the common name for the secret operations of the CIA designed during the early reign of US President John F. Kennedy on November 30, 1961. The president gave permission for aggressive secret operations against the communist regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba. The operation was headed by Air Force General Edward Lansdale and derived his right to the failed Invasion in the Pork Bay of April 1961.
The historian Jorge Domínguez at the Harvard University states that the overthrow of Fidel Castro's government was the main objective of the Kennedy government. To this end, Operation Mongoose, an American program of sabotage and other secret operations against the island, was drafted.
The ultimate goal of the Cuba project was to "support Cuba in the overthrow of the Communist regime", including her leader Fidel Castro, to encourage "an uprising in Cuba, which can take place in Cuba in October 1962 ".
American policy makers also found it desirable that the newly formed government be a "new government with which the United States can live peacefully." Also see
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