The Pentagon Once Considered False-Flag Attacks To Justify An Invasion Of Cuba

The US is moving towards ending its 50-year political and economic embargo on Cuba, a breakthrough in American relations with the island nation.


But at the height of the Cold War, the US was panicked over the prospect of a communist regime less than 100-miles from its territory. And in 1962, three years after Fidel Castro and his allies had successfully carried out their Communist revolution in Cuba, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) proposed a number of measures aimed at legitimizing a US invasion of the island.

The majority of these measures involved false-flag attacks that would give the US the leeway needed to carry out regime change in Havana.

In an unclassified memo titled "Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba," the JCS floats a number of actions that the US could execute which would "develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."

The plans were developed under the name "Operation Mongoose," with an emphasis on the namesake animal's speed: The JCS wanted to carry out these operations, thereby legitimizing attacks on Cuba, before Havana and the Soviet Union established bilateral mutual support agreements. The report was released in March, seven months before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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