Operation Mongoose in the declassified record: Kennedy’s 1961 order, Lansdale’s six-phase plan for a 1962 revolt in Cuba, and the missile-crisis halt.
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Operation Northwoods: The Joint Chiefs’ 1962 Cuba Pretexts Memo
The full March 1962 Northwoods memo, read page by page: how the Joint Chiefs’ nine Cuba pretexts took shape, what each proposed, and how Kennedy answered.