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CIA Forms Secret Cuba Task Force to Undermine Regime

8/6/2026

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Summary

Story summary

The CIA secretly created a Cuba task force to pressure the government as part of President Donald Trump’s push for change.
The task force will add case officers, analysts, cyber and influence specialists and direct extra resources to sow divisions among Cuba’s political elite.
Cuba’s deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said the CIA’s actions continue a long history of U.S. espionage and terrorism against Cuba.

History

Historical Context

In April 1961 the CIA landed about 1,400 Brigade 2506 exiles at Playa Girón, a plan approved by President Kennedy after Eisenhower’s covert groundwork; the swift defeat cemented Fidel Castro’s rule and drove Cuba into the Soviet orbit, setting the stage for the 1962 missile crisis. The Trump administration’s new CIA Cuba task force revives that Cold-War playbook.

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Story summary

The CIA secretly created a Cuba task force to pressure the government as part of President Donald Trump’s push for change.
The task force will add case officers, analysts, cyber and influence specialists and direct extra resources to sow divisions among Cuba’s political elite.
Cuba’s deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said the CIA’s actions continue a long history of U.S. espionage and terrorism against Cuba.

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