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  1. William King Harvey. 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 CIA’s anti-Castro operation. During Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, Harvey lost his job after a profane outburst against Attorney General Robert Kennedy. When Congress investigated JFK’s assassination in the 1970s ...

  3. Nov 10, 2019 · William King Harvey believed he was smarter than the Ivy Leaguers, and he was usually right. He was born in 1915 in Danville, Indiana, where his father, an attorney, died ten months after his birth.

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  4. William King Harvey, the son of a lawyer, was born in Danville, Indiana, in 1915. After graduating from Indiana University Law School he opened a one-man law practice in Kentucky. In December, 1940, he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In July 1947 Harvey broke FBI regulations that an agent had to be on two-hour call at all times.

  5. Oct 3, 2019 · This detailed operational plan by William Harvey, the leader of Task Force W, the CIA’s 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. Following a meeting in the White House on November 3, 1961, this initiative became known as Operation Mongoose and would be led by Air Force Brigadier General Edward Lansdale on the military side and William King Harvey at the CIA. Other agencies were brought in to assist with the planning and execution of Operation Mongoose.

  7. William King Harvey’s Double Agents. The man the CIA selected to run Operation Gold was a James Bond-like officer named William King Harvey, a swashbuckling agent who carried a gun with him at all times. Harvey originally had worked for the FBI, but after an altercation with Director J. Edgar Hoover he left the Bureau for the CIA.

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