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Operation Mongoose

Sabotage, Betrayal, and the Road to the Missile Crisis (Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed)

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Operation Mongoose

By: Miles Dunsford
Narrated by: Chris Bentley
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Operation Mongoose is the untold story of America’s most relentless covert campaign against Fidel Castro’s Cuba, launched in the bitter aftermath of the Bay of Pigs disaster. What began as a demand for payback became a secret war of sabotage, infiltration, propaganda, and plots—an invisible struggle conducted in the shadows, yet powerful enough to shake the entire Cold War.

With vivid narrative clarity, this book takes you behind closed doors where intelligence officers and political leaders convinced themselves that pressure could break a revolution. It follows the Cuban exile networks recruited as weapons, the training camps that turned anger into operations, and the raids and covert strikes designed to drain Cuba’s economy, destabilise daily life, and fracture public loyalty. But it also reveals the darker side of covert culture: how secrecy breeds obsession, how fantasies can grow into policy, and how a superpower can become trapped by the very tools it unleashes.

©2026 Deep Vision Media t/a Zentara UK (P)2026 Deep Vision Media t/a Zentara UK
Americas Freedom & Security Military Politics & Government United States Cold War
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