Miliitary Operation In History Part 3

#18. Operation Kufire

Operation Kufire was a program that sought to identify and track all communist party members who had flocked to Guatemala during the Arbenz regime. Via Kufire, the CIA was intent on charting their movements. This operation introduced the CIA to Ernesto “Che” Guevara.



#19. Operation MIAS

The CIA launched Operation MIAS (Missing in Action Stingers) in order to purchase back the stinger missiles that were given to the Mujahideen in order for Afghans to fight against the Soviet forces. In a way, it was created to clean the mess created by another mission, Operation Cyclone, that funded the Afghan-Soviet war to begin in the first place. Overall, aside from the need of the government to spend over $65 million to recover all the missiles, it was labeled a failure due to tracking issues.

#20. Operation Washtub

The CIA organized Operation Washtub to frame Guatemala as a close ally of Moscow by installing a fake Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua, which if proven, could overthrow Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. The covert mission was considered a success although it didn’t meet its original goals. Instead, operatives managed to frame Guatemala using a fake soviet submarine.


#21. Phoenix Program

The CIA, US Special Ops Forces, Australian Army Training Team, and South Vietnam’s security force worked together in executing and operating the Phoenix Program, whose aim was to neutralize the forces of the Viet Cong. But instead of attacking soldiers, the program focused on abducting civilians and gathering information from them. Most civilians, especially those who were suspected members of the VC, were kidnapped, tortured, and killed.

#22. Project MKOften

The US Department of Defense and the CIA had teamed up to carry out the mission of executing MKOften by testing various drugs on humans and animals, and checking the impact of the drugs on the behavioral and toxicological makeup of their victims.

#23. Project RESISTANCE

Project RESISTANCE was a domestic espionage operation coordinated under the Domestic Operations Division (DOD) of the CIA. Its purpose was to collect background information on groups around the U.S. that might pose threats to CIA facilities and personnel.

#24. Stargate Project

The Stargate Project[1] was the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic applications, particularly “remote viewing”: the purported ability to psychically “see” events, sites, or information from a great distance.

#25.Operation Ivy Bells

To have the advantage in the Cold War, the United States Army, National Security Agency, and the CIA worked together to tap Soviet communication lines in order to learn new information about missile technology, submarine innovation, and other top secret plans. The Sea of Okhotsk has long communications lines running beneath its waves and when it was discovered that they connect bases like Petropavlovsk and Vladivostok, Operation Ivy Bells was set in motion.




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