It was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution, and was presided 🌟 over by Vice President Richard Nixon.[citation needed]
On 11 December 1959, following the Cuban Revolution of January 1959, Colonel J.C. King, 🌟 chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, sent a confidential memorandum to CIA director Allen W. Dulles. King argued that 🌟 in Cuba there existed a "far-left dictatorship, which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against U.S. holdings in 🌟 other Latin American countries."[citation needed]
Tracy Barnes functioned as operating office of the Cuban Task Force. He called a meeting on 🌟 18 January 1960, in his temporary office near the Lincoln Memorial.[citation needed]
In popular culture [ edit ]
Operation 40 is a 🌟 playable faction in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops. Within the game's campaign mode, there is heavy implication 🌟 that the main protagonist and Operation 40 operative Alex Mason may have been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy 🌟 as a Soviet sleeper agent.[citation needed]