Harvey arranged for David Sanchez Morales to move from Mexico City to join the project based at the JM WAVE station. This became known as the ZR/RIFLE project.
William Harvey was ordered to activate an assassination plot against Fidel Castro. The CIA station also had a large number of V-20 Swift craft and access to F-105 Phantoms from nearby Homestead Air Force Base. JM/WAVE had a navy of over 100 craft, including the 174-foot Rex, that had the latest electronic eqquipment and 40-millimeter and 20-millimeter cannons. They in turn ran over 2,200 Cuban agents. Harvey's brief was to organize a broad range of activities that would help to bring down Castro's government.īy the spring of 1962, JM/WAVE employed more than 200 CIA officers. One of Lansdale's first decisions was to appoint William Harvey as head of Task Force W. The head of the station was Ted Shackley and over the next few months became very involved in the attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The CIA JM WAVE station in Miami served as operational headquarters for Operation Mongoose. Kennedy also decided that General Edward Lansdale (Staff Member of the President's Committee on Military Assistance) should be placed in charge of the operation. McNamara (Secretary of Defence) also attending meetings.Īt a meeting of this committee at the White House on 4th November, 1961, it was decided to call this covert action program for sabotage and subversion against Cuba, Operation Mongoose. Although not officially members, Dean Rusk (Secretary of State) and Robert S. Kennedy (Attorney General), included John McCone (CIA Director), McGeorge Bundy (National Security Adviser), Alexis Johnson (State Department), Roswell Gilpatric (Defence Department), General Lyman Lemnitzer (Joint Chiefs of Staff) and General Maxwell Taylor. Kennedy created a committee ( SGA) charged with overthrowing Castro's government. The numerous buildings were said to belong to Zenith Technological Enterprises.Īfter the Bay of Pigs disaster President John F. Located south of Miami in a heavily wooded 1,571-acre tract.
JM WAVE was the Central Intelligence Agency station in Florida.
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