From the CIA's online library under the keyword "Family Jewels" (more detailed reports available at the National Archives' College Park location), a declassified report detailing wire taps on various American journalists, and details on one failed attempt in a long line of failed attempts by the CIA to kill Fidel Castro (this time using a member of the Mafia, Al Capone's successor Johnny Rosellini).
Other ways the CIA purportedly tried to kill the former Cuban leader: poisoned swimsuit, exploding cigar, Bay of Pigs invasion. Fabian Escalante, a long-time security guard for the dictator, estimates the CIA has tried to kill Castro 638 times.
Castro is now 82 years old.
Fidel is The Man. Both in the 1982 Big Brother sense and the 007 I-hate-you-but-am-intrigued-what's-under-your-beard sense.
ReplyDeletePS. If ever I am a dictator (finger's crossed) I hope my list of assassination attempts includes: an attempted coup d'etat and a poisoned martini... wait. Take away that martini comment. Far too frequent a habit to toy with!