Operations [ edit ]

Operation 40 was not only involved in sabotage operations. One associate of the group, although never a 👄 member, Frank Sturgis, allegedly told author Mike Canfield: "this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members 👄 of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary 👄 some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents...We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular 👄 time."[citation needed] The group sought to incite civil war in Cuba against the government of prime minister Fidel Castro. When 👄 Operation 40 failed in accomplishing this goal, then in October 1960, Brigade 2506 was created, a CIA-sponsored group made up 👄 of 1,511 Cuban exiles who fought in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion.

On 17 April 1961, Vicente León León, 👄 with other members of Operation 40, landed at the Bay of Pigs via the CIA-chartered freighter Atlántico. He was killed 👄 in action.[3]

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]