JMWAVE
JMWAVE or JM/WAVE or JM WAVE was the
The intelligence facility was also referred to as the CIA's "Miami Station" or "Wave Station."[2][3][4][5][6]
History
JMWAVE began as the operations center for Task Force W, the
The station's activities escalated, reaching their peak in late 1962 and early 1963 around the Cuban Missile Crisis. Under Theodore Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with 300 to 400 professional operatives and possibly including about 100 based in Cuba and an estimated 15,000 anti-Castro Cuban exiles on its payroll. The CIA was one of Miami's largest employers during this period. Exiles were trained in commando tactics, espionage and seamanship and the station supported numerous exile raids on Cuba.[2][3][10]
The main
On June 26, 1964,
By 1968, JMWAVE became increasingly obsolete, and concerns emerged that the CIA station would become a public embarrassment to the University of Miami. Consequently, it was deactivated and replaced with a substantially smaller station at Miami Beach.[2]
As of 2004, the facilities on the Richmond Naval Air Station site were still used by several U.S. government agencies, including the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, the United States Air Force, and the United States Army. Several original JMWAVE buildings are still standing. As of 2007, a local government effort was focused on converting Building 25 to a military museum and memorial.[3][12][13]
References
- ^ At 25°37′13″N 80°23′56″W / 25.6202°N 80.3990°W
- ^ ISBN 1-57488-675-4
- ^ a b c d e Cold War in South Florida: Historic Resource Study, Steven Hach (ed. Jennifer Dickey), National Park Service Southeast Regional Office, U.S. Department of the Interior, October 2004
- The Atlantic Monthly, November 2006
- ^ South Campus history page Archived 2009-05-08 at the Wayback Machine, University of Miami Libraries, accessed Jan. 24 2007. The first photograph on the page apparently shows Building 25 in 1946.
- ^ "South Campus site formerly home to spies, surveillance Archived 2007-01-24 at the Wayback Machine", Walyce Almeida, The Hurricane (University of Miami student newspaper), December 1, 2006
- ISBN 1-57488-915-X
- ^ National Security Archives interview with Samuel Halpern, George Washington University, first broadcast Nov. 29 1998 on CNN
- ^ Official History of the Bay of Pigs Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (Vol. I excerpt), Jack Pfeiffer, CIA, unpublished, excerpt released in 1997/98 under CIA Historical Review Program, CIA Freedom of Information Act database
- Washington Times, July 24, 2005
- ^ MeasuringWorth.com historical currency converter, accessed Jan. 24 2007
- ^ Press release Archived 2006-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, October 5, 2004, Miami-Dade County
- ^ Richmond Naval Air Station Relocation and Rehabilitation[permanent dead link], Miami-Dade County Building Better Communities website, accessed Jan. 27 2007
