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According to the 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.
Nov 28, 2016 · The agency's attempts to kill Castro ranged from the calamitous to the comical. Many of them were detailed by the Church Committee, a special Senate subcommittee headed by Decomcratic Sen....
Nov 28, 2016 · About 10 years ago, the former head of Cuban intelligence, Fabian Escalante, told a British documentary team the CIA had tried to kill Fidel Castro more than 600 times, over a period of about 40 ...
Nov 9, 2009 · During his tenure as president of Cuba (1976-2008), Castro survived multiple assassination attempts by the CIA.
Aug 12, 2016 · Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was a legendary survivor – besting what Cuban officials say were more than 600 attempts to kill him. He lived much of his long life in the spotlight – and much...
638 Ways to Kill Castro is a Channel 4 documentary film, broadcast in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2006, which tells the story of some of the numerous attempts of the Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuba's leader Fidel Castro. It was directed by Dollan Cannell.
Feb 12, 2021 · How Fidel Castro Survived Over 600 Assassination Attempts. By the time former Cuban leader Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90, he had become known as a legendary survivor. As a young revolutionary, he was reported dead multiple times, only later to be found very much alive. But it was perhaps the 638 times (per CNN ) that Cuban ...
Feb 16, 2012 · The attempt went awry when the pill stuck to the freezer where the waiter-assassin at the Havana Hilton was supposed to retrieve it. When he tried to unstick it, the capsule ripped open.
Nov 26, 2016 · Fabian Escalante, a former head of the Cuban secret service who was charged with protecting Castro from would-be assassins, has claimed that Castro faced 634 attempts on his life, from the...
Dec 1, 2016 · The CIA reportedly made many attempts on former Cuban president Fidel Castro's life. We've curated a list of a number of these ways. Fidel Castro died at the age of 90 on Nov. 25—from what we can only assume were natural causes.
