Copy URL A 1960 CIA assassination plot has come to light as Raul Castro, the 89-year-old brother of late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, prepares to step down as head of the all-powerful Community Party of Cuba. – EPA pic, April 17, 2021. THE CIA made its first known attempt to assassinate a leader of the Cuban revolution in 1960, offering US$10,000 (RM41,500) to a pilot flying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana to arrange an “accident,” according to declassified documents published yesterday. Pilot Jose Raul Martinez, who had been recruited by the CIA, asked for – and received – assurance from the agency that it would provide university educations to his two sons if he died during the operation, according to the documents published by the Washington-based National Security Archive research institute.