Fidel Castro | The Man Who Survived More Than 600 Assassination Attempts
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90 He was also known as The Legendary Survivor. As of the CIA, he was reported dead multiple times, only later to be found alive. But it was perhaps the 638 times that Cuban intelligence officials claimed the CIA tried to kill Castro that would earn him that survivor status. Castro liked to tell interviewers that "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal".
The CIA tried one last kind of assassination: personality assassination. The plan was to so severely damage Castro's reputation and personality thereby forcing him to resign. One way they tried to do this was by spraying broadcast studios with an LSD-like chemical, so that he would fantasise on-air. The chemical was determined to be unreliable and was also abandoned.
In the end, Castro was forced to retire because of his own health issues, including a sort of botched medical operation. Maybe the CIA finally got one right.
read the rest of the article at https://www.kaarthikraja.com/blog/fidel-castro-the-man-who-survived-more-than-600-assassination-attempts/48
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90 He was also known as The Legendary Survivor. As of the CIA, he was reported dead multiple times, only later to be found alive. But it was perhaps the 638 times that Cuban intelligence officials claimed the CIA tried to kill Castro that would earn him that survivor status. Castro liked to tell interviewers that "If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal".
The CIA tried one last kind of assassination: personality assassination. The plan was to so severely damage Castro's reputation and personality thereby forcing him to resign. One way they tried to do this was by spraying broadcast studios with an LSD-like chemical, so that he would fantasise on-air. The chemical was determined to be unreliable and was also abandoned.
In the end, Castro was forced to retire because of his own health issues, including a sort of botched medical operation. Maybe the CIA finally got one right.
read the rest of the article at https://www.kaarthikraja.com/blog/fidel-castro-the-man-who-survived-more-than-600-assassination-attempts/48
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