Operation 40 necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents...We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time." The group sought to incite civil war in Cuba against the government of prime minister Fidel Castro. "In October 1960, they realize that this project has failed, and that is when 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 Leon Leon, with other members of Operation 40, landed at the Bay of Pigs via the CIA-chartered freighter "Atlantico".
CIA activities in Guatemala Board released ‘Report on the Guatemala Review’ which asserts that the CIA had sponsored multiple intelligence agencies that were infamous for inhumanities in Guatemala. The report states that a significant amount of the agency’s Guatemalan allies were believed to have been involved with numerous human rights violations in the region. According to the document, the CIA ignored the majority of these allegations between the mid 1980s and the early 1990s. After this information was unveiled in 1995, John Duetch, the Director of the CIA at that time, forced Terry Ward to retire, the CIA’s chief of the Latin American Division,