CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt

CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (Full Version)

All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid

Message

cyberdude611 -> CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 1:58:05 AM)
CIA plot to kill Castro detailed The CIA recruited a former FBI agent to approach two of America's most-wanted mobsters and gave them poison pills meant for Fidel Castro during his first year in power, according to newly declassified papers released Tuesday. Contained amid hundreds of pages of CIA internal reports collectively known as "the family jewels," the official confirmation of the 1960 plot against Castro was certain to be welcomed by communist authorities as more proof of their longstanding claims that the United States wants Castro dead. Communist officials say there have been more than 600 documented attempts to kill Castro over the decades. Now 80, Castro has not been seen in public since handing power to his younger brother Raul while recovering from intestinal surgery last July. But in a letter published on Monday, the elder Castro claimed without providing details that President Bush had "authorized and ordered" his killing. And while Cuban government press officials didn't return a call seeking reaction Tuesday, the release of the newly declassified CIA documents had already been noted in state media. "Upon the orders of the White House, the Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate President Fidel Castro and other former personalities and leaders," the Communist Party newspaper Granma said Saturday. "What was already presumed and denounced will be corroborated." Other aborted U.S. attempts to kill Castro, who rose to power in January 1959 in a revolution that ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista, have been noted in other declassified documents. The papers released Tuesday were part of a report prepared at the request of CIA Director James Schlesinger in 1973, who ordered senior agency officials to tell him of any current or past actions that could potentially violate the agency's charter. Some details of the 1960 plot first surfaced in investigative reporter Jack Anderson's newspaper column in 1971. The documents show that in August 1960, the CIA recruited ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu, then a top aide to Howard Hughes in Las Vegas, to approach mobster Johnny Roselli and pass himself off as the representative of international corporations that wanted Castro killed because of their lost gambling operations. At the time, the bearded rebels had just outlawed gambling and destroyed the world-famous casinos American mobsters had operated in Havana. Roselli introduced Maheu to "Sam Gold" and "Joe." Both were mobsters on the U.S. government's 10-most wanted list: Momo Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago; and Santos Trafficante, one of the most powerful mobsters in Batista's Cuba. The agency gave the reputed mobsters six poison pills, and they tried unsuccessfully for several months to have several people put them in Castro's food. This particular assassination attempt was dropped after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961. The CIA was able to retrieve all the poison pills, records show. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_cia_castro_plot;_ylt=AnGDEvo6Yg1lTxoKAqkC566s0NUE

Zensee -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 8:17:40 AM)
Gasp! The USA intelligence community engaged in black-ops? Say it ain't so, Joe! Say it ain't so... Z.

mnottertail -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 8:39:15 AM)
This is rather old news really, been out of the closet almost since day one. Official admission or not, it has always been unofficially admitted. They were caught pretty red handed. William F. Buckley detailed the ins and outs of it in one of his Blackford Oakes novels. CIAMaster

Vendaval -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 4:13:40 PM)
I would like to know the cost to US taxpayers for all these Black Op attempts on Castro. [8\|]

UtopianRanger -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 4:44:46 PM)
The year 2041..... CIA, DIA,FBI, NSA MI5&6, Mossad and other clandestine, rogue elements of the New York-London power axis have just admitted that they coupled together with the neocons concocted and carried-out the false-flag operation that destroyed the twin towers in New York and killed over three thousand innocent people. Their motives : To indoctrinate and sway western thinking peoples into supporting/ standing-behind the concept of ''preemptive war'' for cloaked reasons of strategic military positioning and economic global conquest ; by way of a uni-polar governing-body controlling the entire world's natural resources. - R

Griswold -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 6:28:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: cyberdude611 CIA plot to kill Castro detailed The CIA recruited a former FBI agent to approach two of America's most-wanted mobsters and gave them poison pills meant for Fidel Castro during his first year in power, according to newly declassified papers released Tuesday. Contained amid hundreds of pages of CIA internal reports collectively known as "the family jewels," the official confirmation of the 1960 plot against Castro was certain to be welcomed by communist authorities as more proof of their longstanding claims that the United States wants Castro dead. Communist officials say there have been more than 600 documented attempts to kill Castro over the decades. Now 80, Castro has not been seen in public since handing power to his younger brother Raul while recovering from intestinal surgery last July. But in a letter published on Monday, the elder Castro claimed without providing details that President Bush had "authorized and ordered" his killing. And while Cuban government press officials didn't return a call seeking reaction Tuesday, the release of the newly declassified CIA documents had already been noted in state media. "Upon the orders of the White House, the Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate President Fidel Castro and other former personalities and leaders," the Communist Party newspaper Granma said Saturday. "What was already presumed and denounced will be corroborated." Other aborted U.S. attempts to kill Castro, who rose to power in January 1959 in a revolution that ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista, have been noted in other declassified documents. The papers released Tuesday were part of a report prepared at the request of CIA Director James Schlesinger in 1973, who ordered senior agency officials to tell him of any current or past actions that could potentially violate the agency's charter. Some details of the 1960 plot first surfaced in investigative reporter Jack Anderson's newspaper column in 1971. The documents show that in August 1960, the CIA recruited ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu, then a top aide to Howard Hughes in Las Vegas, to approach mobster Johnny Roselli and pass himself off as the representative of international corporations that wanted Castro killed because of their lost gambling operations. At the time, the bearded rebels had just outlawed gambling and destroyed the world-famous casinos American mobsters had operated in Havana. Roselli introduced Maheu to "Sam Gold" and "Joe." Both were mobsters on the U.S. government's 10-most wanted list: Momo Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago; and Santos Trafficante, one of the most powerful mobsters in Batista's Cuba. The agency gave the reputed mobsters six poison pills, and they tried unsuccessfully for several months to have several people put them in Castro's food. This particular assassination attempt was dropped after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in April 1961. The CIA was able to retrieve all the poison pills, records show. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_cia_castro_plot;_ylt=AnGDEvo6Yg1lTxoKAqkC566s0NUE (And?)

JohnSteed1967 -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 8:35:59 PM)
I wish they had the luck and the balls to carry the plan out and nail the bastard!

Zensee -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 10:52:06 PM)
Why, John? Z.

Pandamonum -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/27/2007 11:01:34 PM)
Say what you will, but I love Castro. He is one bad MF. Che, too. In your lifetime, you will never encounter that force, belief, desire for right action, as that. It is non existent.

meatcleaver -> RE: CIA admits to 1960 Castro assassination attempt (6/28/2007 12:16:42 AM)
I find it strange how the US finds it incapable of geting past Castro. It was the US that pushed Castro into the Soviet sphere and the US that made him a hero in the eyes of many in the third world. If the US had accepted his government as a legitimate response to the oppressive Batista regime, there would never have been the Cuban crisis, Americans would have been dmoking cigars and drinking rum in Havanna at the time. This sort of pettiness causes the US more problems than it needs, it gives the world the impression of it being a petty small minded bully. If it accepted the over throw of the Shah as a legitimate response to his oppressive regime and worked towards a working relationship with the new regime we wouldn't be contemplating a war with Iran now. Why can't the US just get over it? And it is a problem with the US psyche. Britain was kicked out of many countries or left having come to a working relationship with new 'terrorist' regimes. The world turns and there are new problems to face, there is really no need to cultivate problems that will simply go away if one works with the grain.

Page: [1]

Collarchat.com © 2025

Terms of Service

0.0625