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Declassified: CIA Plotted Assassination Of Cuba’s Raul Castro
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According to the declassified documents, the CIA attempted to assassinate Raul Castro, the younger brother of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in 1960. The top secret documents were published on the website of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
The report claims that CIA recruited the pilot, Jose Raul Martinez, in Cuba. On July 21, 1960, he joined the crew of a Cubana Airlines charter plane to pick up Raul Castro and other high-ranking Cuban officials from Prague.
America had planned to use nuclear weapons in an all-out third World War with the Soviet Union.
Key point: Here is what the United States thought it would have to do if it wanted to defeat the Communist menace. Yet, despite what we now know, Washington still will not say how many nuclear bombs it had planned to use.
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Dr. Strangelove, an irate president Merkin Muffley refuses to get on board with a massive nuclear attack already in progress. Played by Peter Sellers, Muffley is trying to decide what to do after a rogue U.S. Air Force general sends his planes to bomb the Soviet Union.