{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62d55d4021055c0013a375bb/62d58870c03c9a00141276d3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Operation Mongoose Episode 4 of 5","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/cover/1658150025058-c23282fa9dca164504530a5e200d4e56.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Operation Mongoose, was an extensive campaign of covert operations, carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency against Cuba.&nbsp;It was officially authorized on November 30, 1961 by American President John F. Kennedy. The name Operation Mongoose had been agreed at a prior White House meeting on November 4, 1961. The operation was run out of JM-WAVE, a major secret United States covert operations and intelligence gathering station established a year earlier in Miami, Florida.&nbsp;It was led by William King Harvey at the CIA and went into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.</p><p>This program included a number of dubious schemes aimed at taking Castro out of power.&nbsp;This included everything from exploding seashells to poison cigars.&nbsp;The program is notorious for attempting to involve the Italian American Mafia in the assassination plans as well. &nbsp;This season is 5 episodes in length as we explore the content of these declassified documents.</p>"}