'Operation Mongoose': Washington's Secret War on Cuba [Socialist History: S1 Episode 2]

Podcast: The Socialist Program with Brian Becker · The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

Opublikowano: 2026-06-30

In 1961 the United States launched the largest covert operation of the Cold War against a single country, a campaign of sabotage, terror, and assassination aimed at destroying the Cuban Revolution ninety miles from Florida. It was code-named Operation Mongoose. Alongside it, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up Operation Northwoods, a plan to stage terrorist attacks on American citizens and blame them on Havana in order to manufacture a pretext for a full-scale invasion. In this episode we take a deep dive into how Mongoose and Northwoods were conceived and authorized at the highest levels of the US government and...