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      • On July 26, 1953, he led around 160 men in a desperate and unsuccessful raid on a Santiago army barracks. He had hoped that the attack would ignite a general uprising against Batista, but most of the attackers were killed and Castro and his brother Raúl were arrested and imprisoned.
      www.britannica.com/event/Cuban-Revolution/The-rise-of-Castro-and-the-outbreak-of-revolution

      Cuban Revolution - Fidel Castro, Batista, Uprising | Britannica

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  4. themobmuseum.org › blog › rise-castro-fall-havana-mobThe rise of Castro and the fall of the Havana Mob

    Dec 28, 2018 · When the CIA was looking for partners in efforts to oust or assassinate Fidel Castro, it turned to organized crime. The CIA hired Chicago boss Sam Giancana, Chicago/Los Angeles mafioso Johnny Rosselli and Tampa boss Santo Trafficante Jr. to advance plots against Castro. Other low-level mobsters were involved in anti-Castro activities.

  5. www.chicagomag.com › Chicago-Magazine › NovemberHow the CIA Enlisted the Chicago Mob to Put a Hit on Castro

    Oct 23, 2007 · Castro had effectively robbed the Mafia of those profits by closing the casinos—first temporarily, then permanently.

  6. www.abc.net.au › triplej › programsHow Castro survived 638 very cunning assassination attempts

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    Where: New York When: 1966 Who: Police officer How: A newspaper reported in 1967 that a year earlier the CIA had approached a New York City police officer with the idea of slipping Castro a cigar packed with enough explosives to take his head off. This has never been confirmed, though we know the CIA did use cigars for another, separate assassinati...

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    Where: Havana When: 1961 Who: Waiter How: Castro loved ice cream as he loved cigars, and the CIA hit upon a plan to poison his dessert. To do this, they asked for help from the casino mafia who had been kicked off the island after Castro took power and outlawed gambling. According to some accounts, the mafia was able to slip a jar of poison pills t...

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    Where: Under the sea When: 1963 Who: A Commie-hating mollusc How: Castro loved diving as he loved cigars and ice cream, and the CIA looked into the idea of luring him to his doom with a large, brightly painted sea shell packed with explosives. It would be rigged to explode and then dropped in an area where Castro commonly went diving. The CIA purch...

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    Where: Under the sea, slowly When: 1961 Who: Lawyer How: This plan got quite far. The gadgets arm of the CIA dusted the inside of a diving suit with fungus that caused a chronic skin disease, and put tuberculosis in the breathing apparatus. All they needed to do now was get Castro to put it on. It was decided a high-profile American lawyer who had ...

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    Where: On air When: 1960 Who: The periodic table How: The idea was to undermine Castro's public image by making him behave strangely while he was speaking to the nation. To do this, they would spray the radio broadcasting studio with a chemical similar to LSD, so that he would hallucinate on air. Another idea was to give him a box of cigars that wo...

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › CIA_assassination_attemptsCIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro - Wikipedia

    On October 26, 2017, during the presidency of Donald Trump, declassified documents revealed that US Attorney General Robert Kennedy hesitated to recruit the Mafia in assassination attempts on Castro due to his push against organized crime.

  8. themobmuseum.org › blog › fidel-castro-deathFidel Castro derailed Mob’s plans in Cuba - The Mob Museum

    Nov 28, 2016 · Enter Fidel Castro, a lawyer and political activist who gathered his rebel forces in the mountains and planned his attack on the capitalist exploiters. Protests and acts of violence had preceded the fateful events of December 1958, but the Mob kingpins seemed oblivious to the fact that their assets were at risk.

  9. www.cia.gov › resources › csiCastro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine

    Castro knew the Kennedy brothers were trying to kill him. He had “definitive,” as Latell describes it, proof. Three weeks earlier a double agent, who was supposed to murder Castro and lead a military coup, got the CIA to show proof of high-level US govern-ment support for the operation: it sent a friend of Rob-

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