In 1961, the Central Intelligence Agency tried to use Castro's love of ice cream against him. Every day at the time, Castro ordered a chocolate milkshake from the Havana Libre Hotel lunch counter. Richard Bissell Jr., the CIA deputy director for plans, offered Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante, Jr., the heads of the Chicago and Tampa crime families, $150,000 in order to assassinate Castro. They gave a pill of botulinum toxin to a waiter with the goal of putting it in Castro's chocolate milkshake, but the pill froze to the side of the hotel's freezer and broke.[1] This was one of over 600 failed assassination attempts on Castro by the CIA.
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>>196492705why they wanted to kill castro that could have easily ended in a nuclear war between the us and ussrim glad usa doesnt have the powe it had 100 years ago, it made multiple coups in my country and we are still kind of living the consequences of it
>>196492834CIA has zero capacity for considering long-term consequences, see mujahideen for reference
>>196492705Such a fucking gay and womanlike approach to killing people
sources for those claims?
>>196492834Should have just invaded before the nukes, 0 would have happened.
>>196492705And people want me to like Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who can't even shit properly, more than Fidel.
>>196492705>the cia probably would have succeeded if not for the hotel's incompetency little things like that change the outcome of history. I wonder what kind of shit would have gone down or how much better the world would be because of, at the time, small mistakes being done by seemingly unimportant people.
>>196493786this is what i don't get about cubalike why not just mob the island? like literally just send a million marines in or somethingit's like the iran hostage crisis (the first one) where the USA sent in like 4 helicopters. wtf just send 2,000 like why not?
>>196492834>it made multiple coups in my country>Source, my brown retard education system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro_and_dairyThis article is gold, never knew Castro was a dairy autist
>>196494413They did invade and fail though, that's literally why Castro asked for soviet nukes
>>196494413They literally did this with the Bay of Pigs and it failed
>>196493385Poison is difficult to trace, we would have just offed those two in the alley so they don't talk then set up some random Jap as the fall guy.
>>196494449also>Castro was known to eat large quantities of ice cream, and according to Gabriel Garcia Márquez, once ate between 18 and 28 scoops of it after a meal.
>>196494475>>196494461It wasn't a real invasion though it was like 1.5k troops composed of Cuban exhiles
>be a criminal >is named TrafficanteBRAVO VINCE
>>196494449peaty
Fidel Castro is based, only a gusano could dislike him.
>In 1987, Castro once again asked a team of scientists to genetically engineer cattle, this time hoping to create dog-sized cows to live in people's homes and produce enough milk for each family.[7] This idea never came to fruition.[1][2]What a fucking retard, shouldn't he have bred dairy goats instead? They'd actually be suited to Cuba's climate as well
>>196494692Really a visionary when you think about it.
>>196495251How tho
>>196494576what were we even so busy with that we couldn't send an expeditionary force?
>>196492705>Santo TrafficanteInteresting name for someone in the crime carrer
>>196494413Read a book retarded streetshitter
>>196494692He wanted to give the world minicows.How can that be a bad idea?
>>196497151Goats are nature's minicowsWhy waste your time trying to invent a new species with 80s technology in a shithole backwater country
>>196496077Sending Cuban exiles gave it a veneer of credibility instead of an all out American invasion.
>>196497192Next step: smaller cubans to economize resources
>>196497192good luck trying to keep a goat at your home
>>196497387They're still better suited for a small homestead than cowssource: I've read Hunger Games
I'll never understand why the CIA during that time didn't just get a random patsy to shoot Castro in the head or something normal. It was always some Wile E. Coyote shit.>inb4 they tried thatThey did some soap opera bullshit trying to get one of Castro's lovers to kill him, oblivious to the fact that perhaps someone with a romantic history with him might have some sudden reservations when push comes to shove.
>>196498027"""Intelligence""" agencies in the past were a lot less sophisticated than Hollywood would have you believe, not because they were dumb but that the reality of gaining intelligence and enacting something like this was so much harder, the technology level was also so much lower then and you had less of a chance of convincing some schizo to throw his life away for a CIA plot.
