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“On approving a document titled \u2018A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime\u2019, March 17, 1960, US President Dwight David Eisenhower established a strategy aimed at overthrowing the young Cuban Revolution as his administration\u2019s official policy. The anti-Cuba program included actions such as the setting up of an exiled Cuban organization to provide a cover for CIA operations; the deployment of international propaganda on behalf of the opposition and the creation inside Cuba of an underground intelligence and action group under the direction of the exiled organization; to set up a small paramilitary force out of Cuba in order to take it into the island to organize, train and lead resistance groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Washington Launched Program of Covert Action Against Cuba,” The South Journal online, March 17, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“On approving a document titled \u2018A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime\u2019, March 17, 1960, US President Dwight David Eisenhower established a strategy aimed at overthrowing the young Cuban Revolution as his administration\u2019s official policy. The anti-Cuba program included actions such as the setting up of an exiled Cuban organization to provide a […]<\/p>\n

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