#Cuba
3 entries tagged Cuba.
People (2)
- Bill Harvey William King Harvey (1915-1976) was a CIA officer who built Berlin Base into a major Cold War station managing Operation Gold, then directed CIA-Mafia assassination plots against Fidel Castro before his marginalization following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Ted Shackley Ted Shackley (1927-2002), ‘The Blond Ghost,’ was a CIA operations officer who served as station chief at JMWAVE, Laos, and Saigon, rose to Associate Deputy Director for Operations, was forced out by DCI Turner in 1979, and became a central node in the Safari Club and Iran-Contra private network.
Events (1)
- Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16-28, 1962) was a thirteen-day nuclear confrontation resolved when the Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for an American non-invasion pledge and a secret commitment to remove Jupiter missiles from Turkey.