William King "Bill" Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, best known for his role in the terrorism and sabotage campaign known as Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by Edward Lansdale. [1]

2025年3月21日 · William King Harvey was the CIA’s point man for the infamous Operation Mongoose, an assassination plot to remove Fidel Castro. The plan traces back to the Eisenhower administration and ...

2019年10月3日 · CIA, William Harvey, Memorandum for Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, “Operation MONGOOSE – Sabotage Actions,” October 11, 1962. After the Special Group’s “stated desire for a more aggressive sabotage action,” Harvey drafts this plan to expand offensive operations. The plan envisions striking both maritime and land targets.

In 1962, Bill Harvey served as chief of Task Force W, the CIA’s anti-Castro operation. During Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, Harvey lost his job after a profane outburst against Attorney General Robert Kennedy. When Congress investigated JFK’s assassination in the 1970s, the CIA pulled a 123-page file on Harvey’s operational ...

A recent Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary on the Kennedy assassination includes taped remarks by RFK speaking very derisively of CIA covert operations specialist William Harvey. RFK termed Harvey's ideas "half-assed" and …

2018年1月16日 · William Harvey led or is connected to every related official group contemplating assassination plots by nineteen sixty-two. As his responsibilities mount so too do the pressures, Harvey's temperament worsens and he launches a Cuban mission without the full approval or knowledge of the Kennedy administration.

2025年3月24日 · Recently declassified documents related to the President John F. Kennedy assassination are seen Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV) FILE – Part of a file, dated April 5, 1964, details efforts to trace Lee Harvey Oswald’s travel from Mexico City back to the United States, is photographed in Washington ...

2015年11月22日 · Howard Hunt might have been wary about joining a JFK plot managed by Bill Harvey. But if he knew that Allen Dulles was at the top of the chain of command, that would have instilled in him all...

2019年10月3日 · In this memo, William Harvey attempts to set the record straight on how a sabotage operation aimed at the Matahambre mine was carried out during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harvey outlines a succession of instances where Lansdale, the attorney general, or the Special Group were informed of the decision to “re-run” the operation.

At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Harvey sent ten intelligence operatives into Cuba to gather intelligence and prepare for an invasion Harvey thought inevitable. The unauthorised operation tarnished Harvey’s reputation. Harvey lost his job after a profane outburst against Attorney General Robert Kennedy.