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[[File:JMWAVEreduced.GIF|thumb|350px|JMWAVE buildings, circa 1961. (Source: CIA archives)]]
'''JMWAVE''' or '''JM/WAVE''' or '''JM WAVE''' was the [[CIA cryptonym|codename]] for a major secret [[United States]] [[covert operation]]s and [[intelligence gathering]] station operated by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] from 1961 until 1968. It was headquartered in Building 25 {{coord |25.6202|N|80.3990|W|}} on the South Campus of the [[University of Miami]] in [[Miami, Florida]]. (This location was formerly the site of [[Richmond Naval Air Station]], an [[non-rigid airship|airship]] base about 12 miles south of the main campus; after the airship base closed, it has been used by the University of Miami since 1948.) The intelligence facility was also referred to as the CIA's "Miami Station" or "Wave Station".<ref name = "Castro">''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1574886754/ The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959-1965]'', Don Bohning, Potomac Books, 2005, {{ISBN|1-57488-675-4}}</ref><ref name = "Park">''[http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/coldwar/florida.pdf Cold War in South Florida: Historic Resource Study]'', Steven Hach (ed. Jennifer Dickey), [[National Park Service]] Southeast Regional Office, [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Department of the Interior]], October 2004</ref><ref>"[https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200611/cuba/3 Twilight of the Assassins]", Ann Louise Bardach, ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'', November 2006</ref><ref>[http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=South+Campus South Campus history page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508060542/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=South+Campus |date=2009-05-08 }}, University of Miami Libraries, accessed Jan. 24 2007. The first photograph on the page apparently shows Building 25 in 1946.</ref><ref>"[http://media.www.thehurricaneonline.com/media/storage/paper479/news/2006/12/01/News/South.Campus.Site.Formerly.Home.To.Spies.Surveillance-2515726.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thehurricaneonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com South Campus site formerly home to spies, surveillance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070124214944/http://media.www.thehurricaneonline.com/media/storage/paper479/news/2006/12/01/News/South.Campus.Site.Formerly.Home.To.Spies.Surveillance-2515726.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thehurricaneonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com |date=2007-01-24 }}", Walyce Almeida, ''The Hurricane'' (University of Miami student newspaper), December 1, 2006</ref>
JMWAVE underwent its first major development when it was established as the operations center for Task Force W, the CIA's unit dedicated to "[[Cuban Project|Operation Mongoose]]"<ref name = "Park" /><ref name = "Spymaster">''[https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN157488915X&id=ugcm7NwLlEoC&pg=RA1-PA72&lpg=RA1-PA72&ots=tHB6Gp8XZ6&dq=JMWAVE&sig=5lnmPuZr_HrhxyLmQzlXmKjZZfs#PRA1-PA50,M1 Spymaster: My Life in the CIA]'', Theodore G. Shackley, 2005, Brassey's, {{ISBN|1-57488-915-X}}</ref><ref>[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-10/halpern2.html National Security Archives interview with Samuel Halpern], George Washington University, first broadcast Nov. 29 1998 on [[CNN]]</ref> - a US effort to overthrow [[President of Cuba|President]] [[Fidel Castro]]'s [[Communism|Communist]] government in [[Cuba]]. JMWAVE was also active in some form during the failed US-sponsored [[Bay of Pigs invasion|"Bay of Pigs" invasion]] of Cuba in April 1961.<ref>''[http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs_full.asp?doc_no=0000141167&title=%28ESTIMATED+PUB+DATE%29+EXCERPT+FROM+VOLUME+I+OF+CIA%27S+OFFICIAL+HISTORY+OF+BAY+OF&abstract=%5BPAGES+313+THRU+317+ONLY%5D&no_pages=0006&pub_date=1%2F1%2F1961&release_date=6%2F2%2F1998&keywords=BAY+OF+PIGS%7CCUBA%7CPILOTS%7CCASTRO+FIDEL&case_no=CSI%2D1998%2D00005©right=0&release_dec=RIFPUB&classification=U&showPage=0001 Official History of the Bay of Pigs]'' (Vol. I excerpt), Jack Pfeiffer, CIA, unpublished, excerpt released in 1997/98 under CIA Historical Review Program, CIA Freedom of Information Act database</ref> The JMWAVE operation grew out of an earlier fledgling CIA office in [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]].<ref name = "Castro" />
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By 1968, JMWAVE was increasingly regarded as obsolete. There was also concern that the 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]].<ref name="Castro" />
As of 2004, the facilities on the Richmond Naval Air Station site were still used by several US government agencies, including the CIA's [[Foreign Broadcast Information Service]], the [[United States Air Force]] and the [[United States Army]]. Several original JMWAVE buildings were still standing. As of 2007, Building 25 has been the subject of a local government effort to convert it into a military museum and memorial.<ref name = "Park" /><ref>[http://www.miamidade.gov/build/library/04-10-05-Historic_preservation.pdf Press release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012210014/http://www.miamidade.gov/build/library/04-10-05-Historic_preservation.pdf |date=2006-10-12 }}, October 5, 2004, Miami-Dade County</ref><ref>[http://www.miamidade.gov/Build/283-richnavairstation_building25.asp Richmond Naval Air Station Relocation and Rehabilitation]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Miami-Dade County Building Better Communities website, accessed Jan. 27 2007</ref>
==See also==
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