our commitment to Cuban refugees among us E) its ideological contours and success may tend to inflame disruptive forces in the rest of Latin America accentuating existing economic, social, and political tensions which we conforms. (Wyden, 432) Also, The United States was not prepared to face extra-hemispheric military forces placed in the Western Hemisphere. The United States main goal was to help the people of Cuba overthrow the Communist regime from within Cuba. (Wyden, 433) From the spring of 1959 onward, the CIA did everything that it could to bring about the overthrow of the Castro government. Beginning in January 1960 at the latest, CIA planes from Florida, some with American pilots were raiding Cuban fields with napalm type bombs to burn the sugarcane. New York Times correspondent Joe Jukes wrote in an article for a 1974 Esquire that President Kennedy spoke to him in February 1961 about being under pressure by the CIA to have Castro assassinated. (Brenner, 77) Revolutionaries were active through the spring and summer of 1960 in Cuba, supplied with money, arms, food, and transportation by the CIA. US marines landed on Cuban shores in 1891, 1906, 1912, and 1917. (Wyden 274) Throughout the spring of 1962, planning for overthrowing Castro became more refined. In February, Lansdale said out a six-phase plan for the covert war. The intelligence, political, economic, psychological, sabotage, and military operations were supposed to culminate in an internal anti-Castro revolt in October, 1962 V the same month the Cuban missile crisis took place. On November 30, 1961, Kennedy authorized a covert program known as Operation Mongoose to use available assetsK to help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime. (Wyden 257) From the spring of 1959 onward, the CIA did everything that it could to bring about the overthrow of the Castro government in March 1960. The CIA recommended to arm and train Cuban exiles for guerrilla warfare. The US mounted a ...
