The first meeting chaired by Barnes took place in his office on 18th January, 1960, and was attended by David Atlee Phillips, E. Tracy Barnes became operating officer of what was also called the Cuban Task Force. The group was presided over by Richard Nixon. It obtained this name because originally there were 40 agents involved in the operation. holdings in other Latin American countries." (1)Īs a result of this memorandum Dulles established Operation 40. King argued that in Cuba there existed a "far-left dictatorship, which if allowed to remain will encourage similar actions against U.S. Dulles, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.On 11th December, 1959, Colonel Joseph Caldwell King, chief of CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, sent a confidential memorandum to Allen W. Sloyan is the author of "The Politics of Deception: JFK's Secret Decisions on Vietnam, Civil Rights and Cuba." He is working on a book about Ronald Reagan. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Patrick J. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Castro's would-be assassin asked his CIA handler. According to Sanchez, Cubela was rocked by the news. 22, and as Sanchez and Cubela walked downstairs to the hotel lobby, they learned Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. Cubela said he would devise his own poison for the syringe. Cubela was not impressed with Gunn's handiwork when Sanchez delivered it to him in a Paris hotel room. Inside, he placed a syringe so fine that Castro would feel only a slight nick as poison was injected.
In his CIA lab, Gunn carved out the guts of a Paper Mate ballpoint pen. As a physician, Cubela said, he could devise other methods as well. He asked for explosives and automatic weapons with telescopic sights to do the job. Roland Cubela Secades, a bearded student revolutionary who is pictured alongside Castro and Che Guevara in post-revolution victory photographs in Havana in 1959.Īccording to his CIA handler, Nestor Sanchez, Cubela hoped for American recognition as Castro's successor once his former comrade was dispensed with. The final attack was planned - but never carried out - in 1963 after one of Castro's closest associates was approached by the CIA. "The fruitless and, in retrospect, often unrealistic plotting should be viewed in that light," Earman wrote. And a plot to dust the interior of a skin-diving suit with bacteria that would cover his body in Madura-foot tumors, and another to infect his underwater oxygen system with tuberculosis bacteria. There was the midget submarine for planting explosives in a sea mollusk near Castro's favorite skin-diving area. Fitzgerald became renowned at Langley for the laughter his schemes produced. "The plot was aborted and the pills returned," the inspector general said.īy 1963, Desmond Fitzgerald had taken charge of the CIA's Cuban Task Force. This time, the poison was inserted in a pencil with a secret compartment carved by the good doctor. Once more, Giancana and Roselli were recruited, and once again Gunn provided the means. It resulted in what the inspector general's report termed "severe" pressure by Kennedy to eliminate Castro. Kennedy's failure to overthrow Castro in the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco produced constant Republican attacks on his leadership. Although the pill arrived in Havana, Giancana reported his agent "got cold feet." Finally, Gunn managed to send a monkey to a screeching death. When tested, it failed to kill the guinea pigs. Instead of instantly dissolving, it was still there after a night in a water glass.
They insisted on poison that would be slipped by their Havana agent into Castro's teacup. But they balked at blasting Castro during a speech in Revolutionary Square. Both patriots refused the $150,000 CIA assassination fee. In 1960, the CIA hired two certified mobsters - Sam Giancana of Chicago and Johnny Roselli of Las Vegas, the report said.
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