It also led to a reassessment of Cuba policy by the Kennedy administration. This examination and policy assessment, initiated in May , led in November of that year to a decision to implement a new covert program in Cuba, with the codename of Operation Mongoose.
Operation Mongoose was designed to do what the Bay of Pigs invasion failed to do: remove the Communist Castro regime from power in Cuba. Orchestrated by the CIA and Department of Defense under the direction of Edward Lansdale, Operation Mongoose constituted a multiplicity of plans with wide-ranging purpose and scope. Lansdale outlined the coordinated program of political, psychological, military, sabotage, and intelligence operations, as well as proposed assassination attempts on key political leaders, including Castro.
Monthly components of the operation were to be set in place to destabilize the communist regime, including the publication of Anti-Castro propaganda, provision of armaments for militant opposition groups, and establishment of guerilla bases throughout the country, all leading up to preparations for an October military intervention in Cuba.
Some though not all of the planned Operation Mongoose actions were deployed during , but the military intervention did not occur, and the Castro regime remained in power. I yearned to visit those places, to see where my grandfather grew up and ran wild. The game opens in a small bar in Havana, music plays as a woman slowly dances around the nearly empty room by herself. The bar's owner explains to you how to get to Castro's compound, a place that once was his own home.
The virtual bartender's disgust and anger is obvious. It's also familiar, I think, to anyone with family who had their property taken by Castro. The scene quickly devolves into a running firefight with police which sends you down the streets and toward the compound.
The rest of the Cuba level has you fighting your way through the compound, trying to get to Castro. The level ends with your player discovering that the man you killed, the man who grabbed and used his mistress as a human shield, is actually a body double, and not Castro.
The discovery is a reminder that as with books and movies before it, Call of Duty: Black Ops is simply examining historic events and adding a bit of fiction to spice things up.
But because Black Ops is a video game, because it puts the gun in your hand, the trigger at your finger, it can also give you a chance to do something that some Cubans have longed to do for nearly half a century: Kill Castro.
As the son of the son of a Cuban expatriate, the moment was lost on me. No death, virtual or real, can return my family history to me. But his regime has taken a dim view of the latest Call of Duty game in which players take part in an imaginary attempt by a US special forces to hunt down and kill the Communist leader. On the one hand, it glorifies the illegal assassination attempts the United States government planned against the Cuban leader The game is set at the height of the Cold War with players taking part in covert missions against Communist enemies of the United States such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos.
The opening level is set in the hours leading up to the Bay of Pigs invasion, the disastrous attempt by Cuban exiles and the US military to topple the Castro regime. Gamers take on the role of a member of an elite CIA assassination squad sent into Cuba before the invasion to try and decapitate the regime. After a series of skirmishes in the streets of Havana, the squad breaks into a villa where they are told the Cuban leader is hiding.
The assassination team bursts into a room and guns down a bearded man in military fatigues that they suspect to be Castro.
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