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  1. William King "Bill" Harvey (September 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, best known for his role in the terrorism and sabotage campaign known as Operation Mongoose. He was known as "America's James Bond ", a tag given to him by Edward Lansdale.

  2. A critical biography of William K. Harvey by a former colleague. In 1962, Bill Harvey served as chief of Task Force W, the CIAs anti-Castro operation. During Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, Harvey lost his job after a profane outburst against Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

  3. Nov 10, 2019 · Ex-FBI agent Bill Harvey was nothing like his Ivy League colleagues in the CIA. He didn’t even own a trenchcoat. But he knew a spy when he saw one, even when no one else did. Steve Vogel....

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  4. A recent Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary on the Kennedy assassination includes taped remarks by RFK speaking very derisively of CIA covert operations specialist William Harvey. RFK termed Harvey's ideas "half-assed" and potentially very damaging to the United States.

  5. Oct 3, 2019 · This detailed operational plan by William Harvey, the leader of Task Force W, the CIAs unit carrying out Operation Mongoose, starts by rejecting a key conclusion in the August 1 National Intelligence Estimate on Cuba, otherwise, “this operation plan is not a valid plan for the overthrow of the Castro-Communist government unless this ...

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  6. In the April 5, 2007, issue of Rolling Stone, Saint John Hunt detailed a number of individuals purported to be implicated by his father, including Lyndon B. Johnson, Cord Meyer, David Phillips, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, Antonio Veciana, William Harvey, and an assassin he termed "French gunman grassy knoll" who some presume was Lucien Sarti.

  7. U.S. Air Force Major General Edward Lansdale, head of Operation Mongoose on the military side of the operation, with William Harvey leading the CIA effort. Mongoose was led by Edward Lansdale at the Defense Department and William King Harvey at the CIA.

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