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Did the Dastardly CIA Really Try Repeatedly to Assassinate Poor Innocent Little Fidel Castro?

2017-11-04

[Townhall] So you’d really hope the American taxpayer was getting an honest return on their "investment" and CIA officials were really "putting on their thinking caps" and really "burning the midnight oil" attempting to bump-off a mass-murdering Soviet satrap and terrorist who set up shop 90 miles from our shores during the height of the Cold War.

HAH! Hope again. "So far as I have been able to determine," revealed E. Howard Hunt who, during the early 1960s, served as head of the political division of the CIA’s "Cuba Project," "no COHERENT plan was ever developed within the CIA to assassinate Castro, though it was the heart’s desire of many exile groups."

Interestingly, Hunt stressed that killing Castro was his own recommendation. But he couldn’t get any serious takers within the agency.

Posted by:Besoeker

#3 What goes around comes around.
BoP events reminds me of another more recently failed CIA project in Benghazi.

Posted by: Skidmark 2017-11-04 15:29

#2 The origins of the "coherent plan" were that Castro was to be installed as the Cuban leader. Quite obviously the plan worked.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-04 09:00

#1 "No coherent plan was ever developed within the CIA." I recall Director of National Intelligence Clapper saying when asked about unmasking: "no," or at least "not wittingly." Three-letter agencies tend to parse and weigh words.

Does the Bay of Pigs count as a plot? Years ago (circa 1959-60), I recall that a private company with interests in Cuba was offering $1 mil for a hit on Castro, at least that was the rumor.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-11-04 08:42

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