Cuban Project - Legacy

Legacy

The Cuban Project, as with the earlier Bay of Pigs invasion, is widely acknowledged as an American policy failure against Cuba. According to Noam Chomsky in 1989, Operation Mongoose "won the prize for the largest operation of international terrorism in the world." According to the author, it had a budget of $ 50 million per year, employing 2,500 people including about 500 Americans, and still remained secret for 14 years, from 1961 to 1975. It was revealed in part by the Church Commission in the U.S. Senate and in part "by good investigative journalism." "Here is a terrorist operation that could trigger a nuclear conflict" (because of operations during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962). He said that "it is possible that the operation is still ongoing, but it certainly lasted throughout all the 70's."