{"id":12633,"date":"2020-12-16T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=12633"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:39:05","slug":"cia-inspector-general-report-on-operation-mongoose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/cia-inspector-general-report-on-operation-mongoose\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Inspector General Report on Operation Mongoose"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>From the document below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;This reconstruction of Agency involvement in plans to assassinate Fidel Castro is at best an imperfect history. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the operations being discussed or attempted, as a matter of principle no official records were kept of planning, of approvals, or of implementation. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>The few written records that do exist are either largely tangential to the main events or were put on paper from memory years afterward.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In July of 2016, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request for this record. Although previously released, it was heavily redacted. The most recent known version at the time of filing, was <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/CIA-IG-AssinationPlotFidelCastro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THIS ONE<\/a>, appearing to have been last reviewed in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>In March of 2019 (added to The Black Vault on December 16, 2020), the below record was reviewed for release.<\/p>\n<p>There are less redactions, but more so, the copy is much more legible.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/EOM-2016-01246.pdf\">CIA Inspector General Report on Operation Mongoose<\/a> [144 Pages, 38.2MB]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background From the document below: &#8220;This reconstruction of Agency involvement in plans to assassinate Fidel Castro is at best an imperfect history. Because of the extreme sensitivity of the operations being discussed or attempted, as a matter of principle no official records were kept of planning, of approvals, or of implementation. 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