Western Hemisphere Division organization
also: CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, Western Division staff
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and closed the mafia-owned casinos in Havana. Then Castro declared his commitment to communism, putting a Soviet ally only 90 miles from American territory. The CIA's Western Hemisphere Division got the job of ridding Cuba of Castro, and th…
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took the Western Hemisphere divisions of both offices and put them together, of the OSS and the OPC, just to see how it would work. Fused them together. The last straw came in 1952 as a byproduct of the Lee-Me partisan operation. The OPC, W…
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and all of the nations surrounding Guatemala, because they're going to do to Guatemala exactly what they did to Nicaragua. Nicaragua was surrounded by Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and they basically set up terrorist training camps, as …
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Now, six months later, Eisenhower approved measures that began a secret war. So again, Castro hasn't even been there very long at all, six months, and they've already declared war on him. The CIA already had an answer. In August of 59, disc…
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An extra 1,000 CIA personnel supported the director of operations work. Field stations in Africa increased by half between 59 and 63. You know, because we're going to overthrow a bunch of governments there. Reflecting the rise of Tweedy's A…