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    Marita Lorenz

    German who had affair with Fidel Castro

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  1. Ilona Marita Lorenz (18 August 1939 – 31 August 2019) was a German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.

  2. Nov 1, 1993 · Marita Lorenz is standing over her copying machine, duplicating old news clippings while expostulating on how she almost paid with her life for testifying at the House hearings.

  3. Sep 5, 2019 · Marita Lorenz, who became pregnant from an affair with Fidel Castro but who balked at poisoning him in an American-linked plot by Cuban counter-revolutionaries, died on Aug. 31 in...

  4. Jun 21, 2023 · Marita Lorenz was a CIA spy, a lover of Fidel Castro, and a witness to the JFK assassination. Learn about her controversial life, from her childhood in Germany to her involvement in the Bay of Pigs and Operation Northwoods.

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  5. Ilona Marita Lorenz was a German-born American woman who had a relationship with Fidel Castro in 1959 and was allegedly part of CIA’s assassination attempt against him in January 1960. Originally from Bremen, Lorenz spent several months imprisoned at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp along with her mother as a child.

  6. Oct 10, 2017 · When Marita Lorenz met Fidel Castro in 1959, she was just nineteen years old. And a year later, after living with Castro for several months, she was recruited to assassinate him. Branded as a “scorned lover,” U.S. operatives thought Marita could be convinced to poison Castro out of revenge.

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  8. Sep 23, 2019 · Marita Lorenz, who has died aged 80, led an extraordinary life which inspired a television film, My Little Assassin (1999), and Marita, which is still in production, starring Jennifer Lawrence...

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