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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 · Fidel Castro: Early Years . Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to the island during the ...
Mar 29, 2023 · Fidel Castro speaking at a United Nations meeting in New York, 1979, via Library of Congress, Washington DC From the time Fidel Castro assumed control of the Cuban government in 1959 to the end of his leadership in 2008, there were more than 600 assassination attempts made on his life. Less than ten of these attempts were made by the CIA.
Nov 26, 2016 · Fidel Castro holds up a newspaper headlining the discovery of a plot to kill him, during a visit to New York in April 1959. ... While the assassination attempts started under the presidency of ...
Aug 2, 2006 · The most recent serious assassination attempt that we know of came in 2000 when Castro was due to visit Panama. A plot was hatched to put 200lb (90kg) of high explosives under the podium where he ...
Aug 12, 2016 · Havana, Cuba CNN —. 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 ...
May 4, 2021 · Cuban leader Fidel Castro (right) and his brother Raúl Castro, the head of the military, at a 1964 event in Santiago, Cuba. New details of the first CIA attempt to kill the Castros — a 1960 ...
