A series of newspaper reports in the 1970s led to a government investigation of the CIA's abuses of power. President Ford banned political assassinations in 1976, but according to Escalante they continued for two more decades, including in the '90s under President Clinton.

Corruption and lies the whole way down. No wonder the US is crumbling.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

According to some accounts, the mafia was able to slip a jar of poison pills to a cafe worker in the capital of Havana.

Some say the worker was meant to slip the poison into an ice cream cone, other say it was a milkshake. But at the crucial moment, the poison could not be dislodged from inside the freezer. It was frozen stuck.

Either way, this was the closest the CIA came to getting the marked man.

If anything could convince me there is a divine force it would be the number of times Castro avoided death through sheer luck. His existence is so statistically improbable that it can only be explained as having something watching over him.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I see it as a bunch of Cubans on the ground lying to the CIA.

"Why yes I'll take your money after you destroyed my country's economy, aww shucks I couldn't get him because [increasingly bad excuses]."

The CIA has no way to call out the lie, the mid-level ghouls don't want to admit they were duped anyway, and the higher-ups ideologically believe there are dissidents all over.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't see that as plausible. If it were the case it would just be reported earlier to the Cuban authorities and not get so far along. If a civilian took it into their own hands to foil this and "fail" at the last second they would be risking getting caught by Cuban authorities who would have absolutely no choice but to arrest them and treat them as a CIA asset in an attempted assassination plot against Fidel.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Ha maybe Cuban authorities were notified, and told people to take the money and pass bullshit excuses for failure back.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Completely based plot armor

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

He wore a moral vest