The 'agency' as CIA is famously known has declassified documents and reports that detail its botched attempt to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro in the early 1960's. This is at a time that the Cold War was peaking up pace and CIA had a penchant for assassinating and initiating coups against Presidents and regimes that they perceived to be communist followers!
The documents were aptly named the 'Family Jewels'.
In the documents, CIA admits to have contracted a mobster of mafiosi member who was on the then US most-wanted list, to do the job in a 'gangster-type action.'
The financial backing of the project was coming from international firms that were suffering from Castro's actions to the tune of $150,000.00. The options were to use fire arms but was shelved for the half a dozen'high lethal content pills' which were to be put in his food or drinks. Of the two men contracted, one with 'access' Castro chickened out and the other tried severally before failing.
The CIA's attempts (which have been many) at Castro have always failed dramatically and always border on the bizzare and leave the agency with an egg on its face. There was , what i think to be the most bizzare where they planned to make an illusion of Jesus Christ over Havanah at night so that they could tell Castro that 'even God was against him!' How that was supposed to work baffles my simple mind. Or is it that the CIA well endowed in cash is denied the benefit of realistic minds, or is it Completely Insane Americans?
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