3/17/1960

“On approving a document titled ‘A Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime’, March 17, 1960, US President Dwight David Eisenhower established a strategy aimed at overthrowing the young Cuban Revolution as his administration’s 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.”

“Washington Launched Program of Covert Action Against Cuba,” The South Journal online, March 17, 2010