Congo Task Force organization

“dictum was the first team should go to Vietnam. And given the dominance of Cuban operations in the early 1960s, CIA's next station chief was John Hart from the Cuba Task Force. Now, again, remember that the entire Cuba Task Force was set up…”

“S-T-A-N-U-L-I-S, planning full-time for CIA action in Latin America contingencies since September. Cuba became his number one priority. That November, the agency ordered that operations were to be based on the premise that Cuba had a non-co…”

“18 persons were assigned to WH-4 at headquarters, 20 at the Havana station, and two more under diplomatic cover at the U.S. consulate in Cuba. Jacob Esterling became chief of the task force. A Burma OSS veteran, Esterling had graduated from…”

“Examination of special group records by the Senate committee in the 1970s shows that Dulles recommended that the CIA prepare plans to affect Castro's fall. Five days later, a dozen people met with J.C. King to create the Cuba Task Force. Th…”

“King also noted that unless the top folks could be eliminated in one package, the operation might draw out, in which Castro could be overthrown by force. The plan crafted by Esterling and Richard Drain envisioned an exile force gathered ove…”

“At the CIA, a branch formerly responsible for DO activities in several African countries suddenly became the Congo Task Force, led by Edward Wells, a gung-ho secret warrior who had fought alongside the British in the Balkans and Middle East…”

“putting propaganda out there about Fidel Castro. They're actually propagandizing anybody within range that they didn't care about. Cuba had already began jamming the transmissions from Swan Island. At Fort Gulick in Panama, the CIA had trai…”