The CIA tried to recruit organized-crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro because agency officials believed the mafia employed 'master assassins' and still had influence in Havana's underworld.
Sources
- The Mysterious Blunderings of the CIA (warontherocks.com)
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2025-11-20/cia-assassination-plots-church-committee-report-50-years (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
- https://www.foxnews.com/story/cia-papers-detail-plot-to-poison-castro (foxnews.com)
- https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/belligerence/mafia-cia.htm (latinamericanstudies.org)
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