FIDEL CASTRO Vs. CIA.
The CIA's 7 Most Bizarre
Assassination Attempts
SARASIJ MAJUMDER
During
my school, and college days, FIDEL CASTRO, and CHE GUEVERA were my heroes. I
will talk today CIA’s some assassination
attempts on Castro’s life.
Cuban
dictator survived a total of 634 assassination attempts, and the
CIA tried to come up with a number of strange ways to get rid of him. The
details are listed below:
7.
The Psychedelic Speech
Not
all of the attempts were on Castro's life: America's intelligence services
initially tried other methods to undermine the leader's public image as a
charismatic strongman.
In
1960, the CIA planned to sabotage Castro's speeches by spraying his
broadcasting studio with a chemical that would make him suffer similar
hallucinations to LSD.
6. Poisonous
cigars - At first, the CIA poisoned a box of cigars and sent it to Cuba.
However, they never reached Castro, and nobody knows what happened to them.
5.
Mobsters - The CIA also enlisted two gangsters to help with Castro's
death. The government was ready to pay $150,000 (at least $1.2 million in
today's money) to have the gangsters take Castro out. The mobsters happened to
be Sam Giancana, the boss of the Chicago mob, and Santos Trafficante, the
leader of the mafia’s Cuban operations. They hired a Cuban to take poisonous
pills to Castro, but he never arrived because “his feet got cold.”
4.
Explosive seashells - Although this plan never came to fruition,
intelligence officials wanted to utilize Castro's passion for the ocean to kill
him. They planned to lace explosives inside a large seashell and decorate it
with beautiful colours to steal the gaze of the scuba-loving dictator.
3.
Fungus suit - After that, the CIA wanted to ruin one of Castro's scuba
suits with a fungus that would produce a deadly, chronic skin disease. The
diving suit, as well as a contaminated breathing apparatus, ended up never
leaving the laboratory, and the assassin gave Castro the wrong suit.
2.
Femme fatale - The CIA tasked Castro’s lover—Marita Lorenz—with murdering
Castro. Lorenz told Vanity Fair in 1993 that, while she was
Castro's lover in late 1959, she was recruited as a contract-agent for the CIA
and tasked with assassinating the Cuban leader.
She
was given two botulism-toxin pills to drop in Castro’s drink, so her story
goes. Just one would kill him in 30 seconds, but she got cold feet.
1.
Poisoned Pen - They wanted to send an assassin with a hypodermic needle
concealed inside a pen, but this never happened since the assassin complained
about the method of killing and because the death of President Kennedy shifted
the CIA’s focus.
They
also tried dusting his shoes with thallium salts — which would have made
Castro's iconic beard fall out.
Like
the hundreds of other plots against Castro, all failed.
Former
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Council of
State, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 (CST) on the evening of 25
November 2016, at the age of 90.
SOURCE:-
Sl. 3 is from USA . There are many other references as well.
2.0
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-castro-survived-638-assassination-attempts/8064788
3.0https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/104-10103-10183.pdf
4.0
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/03/cuba.duncancampbell2
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