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he state department before august 1960 august 1960 to april 1961 april 1961 to late 1961 late 1961 to late 1962 and late 1962 to late 1963 4 24 25 fidel castro survived numerous attempts to either assassinate him or end his political career 5 one attempt involved spraying a chemical similar to lsd into the air of the room at a radio station from which castro would broadcast with the goal of making him speak erratically while on the air castro loved diving and the cia attempted to create a diving suit infected with tuberculosis that would kill castro slowly over time 5 castro found out about this and the plan did not succeed citation needed according to columnist jack anderson the first cia attempt to assassinate castro was part of the bay of pigs invasion operation five subsequent cia teams were sent at the end of february or beginning of march 1963 the last team was apprehended on a rooftop within rifle range of castro 6 7 attorney robert maheu who was working as a cia cutout at the time was identified as the team leader who recruited john roselli a gambler with contacts in the american mafia and cuban underworlds the cia assigned two operations officers william king harvey and james o connell to accompany roselli to miami to recruit the actual teams 8 mafia engagement edit sam giancana head of the chicago crime syndicate according to cia documents the so called family jewels that were declassified in 2007 one assassination attempt on fidel castro prior to the bay of pigs invasion involved noted american mobsters john roselli sam giancana and santo trafficante 9 at least some of the cia assassination attempts on castro were given the cia project name zrrifle citation needed in september 1960 momo salvatore giancana a successor of al capone s in the chicago outfit and miami syndicate leader santo trafficante who were both on the fbi s ten most wanted list at that time were indirectly contacted by the cia about the possibility of fidel castro s assassination johnny roselli a member of the las vegas syndicate was used to get access to mafia bosses the go between from the cia was robert maheu of the howard hughes organization who introduced himself as a representative of several international businesses in cuba that were expropriated by castro on september 14 1960 maheu met with roselli in a new york city hotel and offered him 150 000 for the removal of castro james o connell who identified himself as maheu s associate but who actually was the chief of the cia s operational support division was present during the meeting 10 the declassified documents did not reveal whether roselli giancana or trafficante accepted a down payment for the job according to the cia files giancana suggested poison pills as a means to doctor castro s food or drinks such pills manufactured by the cia s technical services division were given to giancana s nominee named juan orta who had been recommended as an official in the cuban government with access to castro 11 12 13 14 allegedly after several unsuccessful attempts to introduce the poison into castro s food orta abruptly demanded to be let out of the mission handing over the job to another unnamed participant later a second attempt was mounted through giancana roselli and trafficante using anthony varona the leader of the cuban exile junta who had according to trafficante become disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the junta varona requested us 10 000 in expenses and us 1 000 worth of communications equipment however the second assassination attempt was apparently thwarted when castro stopped visiting the restaurant that had the botulinum toxin poison pills and was cancelled entirely due to the launching of the bay of pigs invasion 15 13 according to secret transcripts declassified in 2021 then inspector general scott breckinridge in his 1975 church committee hearing told senators that the cia had also contemplated using botulinum toxin to lace cigars to be delivered to castro but this plan never went forward 15 on october 26 2017 during the first presidency of donald trump declassified documents revealed that us attorney general robert f kennedy hesitated to recruit the mafia in assassination attempts on castro due to his push against organized crime 16 later attempts edit cia director richard helms with president lyndon b johnson in july 1968 cia director george h w bush meeting with president gerald ford in the oval office in december 1975 the church committee stated that it substantiated eight attempts by the cia to assassinate fidel castro in 1960 1965 3 71 fabián escalante a retired chief of cuba s counterintelligence who had been tasked with protecting castro estimated the number of assassination schemes or actual attempts by the cia at 638 a project code named executive action and split them among u s administrations as follows dwight d eisenhower 38 john f kennedy 42 lyndon b johnson 72 richard nixon 184 jimmy carter 64 ronald reagan 197 george h w bush 16 bill clinton 21 17 18 19 some of the schemes were a part of the covert cia program dubbed operation mongoose aimed at toppling the cuban government the assassination attempts reportedly included cigars poisoned with botulinum toxin a eumycota fungi infected scuba diving suit along with a booby trapped conch placed on the sea bottom 20 an exploding cigar castro loved cigars and scuba diving but quit smoking in 1985 20 21 and plain mafia style execution endeavors among others 22 there were also plans to blow up castro during his visit to ernest hemingway s museum in cuba 23 in 2006 some of the plots against castro were depicted in a documentary film 638 ways to kill castro which aired on british public service television station channel 4 24 one of these attempts was by his ex lover marita lorenz whom he met in 1959 she agreed to aid the cia and attempted to smuggle a jar of cold cream containing poison pills into his room when castro learned about her intentions he reportedly gave her a gun and told her to kill him but her nerves failed 20 25 some plots aimed not at murder but at character assassination they for example involved using thallium salts to destroy castro s famous beard 4 30 or lacing his radio studio with a substance resembling lsd 26 to cause him disorientation during the broadcast and damage his public image 27 28 when castro travelled abroad the cia cooperated with cuban exiles for some of the more serious assassination attempts 21 29 the cia in 1962 considered a plan called operation bounty which would have involved dropping leaflets over cuba offering financial rewards to the cuban population for the assassination of various individuals including 5 000 to 20 000 for informants 57 000 for department heads 97 000 for foreign communists operating in cuba up to 1 million for members of the cuban government and only 0 02 for castro himself which was meant to denigrate him in the eyes of the cuban people the top secret document that revealed the plan which was never put into practice was one of 2 800 related to the federal investigation of the kennedy assassination which were released as scheduled in october 2017 30 31 the last documented attempt on castro s life was in 2000 undertaken by cuban exiles and involved placing 90 kg of explosives under a podium in panama where he would give a talk castro s personal security team discovered the explosives before he arrived 20 castro once said that with respect to the numerous attempts on his life he believed had been made if surviving assassination attempts were an olympic event i would win the gold medal 20 32 reactions edit this article relies excessively on references to primary sources please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources find sources cia assassination attempts on fidel castro news newspapers books scholar jstor september 2022 learn how and when to remove this message the church committee rejected political assassination as a foreign policy tool and declared that it was incompatible with american principle international order and morality 3 1 it recommended that congress consider developing a statute to eradicate it or similar practices a concept that was never introduced in 1976 president gerald ford signed executive order 11905 which stated that no employee of the united states government shall engage in or conspire in political assassination 33 for many years the new york times kept an obituary ready for fidel castro in its composing room already locked on a turtle flat table for instant printing in the event of his assassination castro eventually survived so many assassination attempts that the hot metal typesetting process became outdated and the turtle was moved to the office of william safire where it remained as of 1990 34 see also edit cuba portal 638 ways to kill castro church committee cuban project foreign interventions by the united states united states involvement in regime change references edit fidel castro biography cause of death brother facts britannica www britannica com retrieved december 13 2022 pape matthew s 2002 can we put the leaders of the axis of evil in the crosshairs parameters us army war college quarterly xxxii 3 64 archived from the original on july 14 2014 retrieved october 29 2013 1 2 3 4 alleged plots involving foreign leaders u s senate select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities s rep no 755 94th cong 2d sess pdf archived september 21 2013 at the wayback machine 1 2 3 escalante fabián 1996 cia targets fidel secret 1967 cia inspector general s report on plots to assassinate fidel castro melbourne vic australia ocean press isbn 1875284907 1 2 how castro survived 638 very cunning assassination attempts triple j november 28 2016 retrieved december 13 2022 anderson jack june 18 1971 6 attempts to kill castro laid to cia washington post p b7 allen nick march 19 2012 fidel castro knew lee harvey oswald would assassinate john f kennedy the daily telegraph issn 0307 1235 retrieved june 24 2018 blanton william ed february 15 1972 memorandum for the executive director subject john roselli vol george washington university national security archives electronic briefing book no 222 the cia s family jewels snow anita june 27 2007 cia plot to kill castro detailed the washington post washington d c ap retrieved november 22 2014 trying to kill fidel castro the washington post june 27 2007 juan orta www historyofcuba com retrieved march 16 2026 holland steve and sullivan andy june 27 2007 cia tried to get mafia to kill castro documents reuters 1 2 family jewels cia archive pp 12 19 johnson alex june 26 2007 cia opens the book on a shady past nbc news 1 2 178 10004 10213 testimony of william colby and scott breckinridge jr 5 23 75 pp 106 107 united states senate select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities summary of facts archives gov may 30 1975 retrieved december 3 2022 how castro survived 638 very cunning assassination attempts australian broadcasting corporation november 28 2016 retrieved december 20 2025 brown stephen rex november 26 2016 fidel castro survived over 600 assassination attempts cuban spy chief said ny daily news escalante font fabián es 2006 executive action 634 ways to kill fidel castro melbourne ocean press isbn 1920888721 1 2 3 4 5 fidel castro dodging exploding seashells poison pens and ex lovers bbc november 27 2016 1 2 campbell duncan november 26 2016 close but no cigar how america failed to kill fidel castro the guardian epstein edward jay january 2000 the plots to kill castro george magazine 5 60 63 corn davis and russo gus march 26 2001 the old man and the cia a kennedy plot to kill castro archived october 17 2014 at the wayback machine the nation campbell duncan august 3 2006 638 ways to kill castro london the laura nuessbaum retrieved august 16 2006 aston martin november 23 2006 the man who wouldn t die radio times castro assassination plans pdf u s national archives july 19 1994 clair jeffrey st july 1 2021 killing castro ebscohost openurl ebsco com retrieved january 4 2026 seven of the most bizarre cia assassination attempts on fidel castro nbc news november 28 2016 retrieved january 4 2026 macaskill ewen may 5 2017 the cia has a long history of helping to kill leaders around the world the guardian retrieved january 3 2019 the cia offered big bucks to kill cuban communists for fidel himself just two cents miami herald october 27 2017 retrieved october 28 2017 the us government planned to drop leaflets in cuba encouraging people to kill fidel castro for just 2 cents business insider october 27 2017 retrieved october 28 2017 the castropedia fidel s cuba in facts and figures the independent january 17 2007 archived from the original on may 14 2008 retrieved september 1 2013 executive order no 11 905 3 c f r 90 1977 safire william november 18 1990 on language hed folo my lede unhed new york times v t e 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