Louis Smith, senior State Department historian for the book, said the Kennedys were obsessed with eliminating their communist nemesis. "They were telling the CIA, `Do whatever it takes to get rid of Castro,"' says Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archives, a private research organization. government put the contract out on Castro, but they "guessed or assumed that CIA was behind the project," the memo concludes.Īfter the Bay of Pigs invasion failed to oust Castro in April 1961, President Kennedy and his brother, the attorney general, tacitly approved a renewed CIA effort to kill the Cuban leader. Rosselli and Giancana, both later victims of mob hits, weren't told the U.S. Rosselli and Giancana "emphatically stated that they wished no part of any payment," it added. "A figure of $150,000 was set by the agency as a payment to be made on completion of the operation," the memo said. The memo said Maheu contacted John Rosselli, a top Giancana lieutenant, to arrange the hits on Castro. Lawmakers counted a total of eight CIA tries to kill Castro in the early 1960s Castro bragged the number was two dozen. was kept to a total of six persons," Edwards wrote.Īt least two assassination attempts were made with CIA-supplied lethal pills and organized crime-made muscle in early 1961, according to the memo and congressional hearings in 1975. In the memo, then-CIA director of security Sheffield Edwards writes that senior agency officials approved plots to kill Castro between August 1960 and May 1961. The memo is among 450 documents, nearly all newly declassified, that are included in a soon-to-be released State Department volume, "Cuba, 1960-61." Only two copies of the three-page memo were made, one each for the attorney general and CIA headquarters. By then, the Kennedy White House had launched its unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and several assassination attempts against Castro had failed. The underworld murder-for-hire contract was detailed in a summary of a May 1962 CIA briefing for then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy. "Would it be folly to go after Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War or to go after Hitler during World War II?" "We were at (ideological) war," says Robert Maheu, who as a Las Vegas private investigator on the CIA payroll in 1960 hired Chicago crime boss Sam Giancana for the hit. WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA offered $150,000 to have Cuban leader Fidel Castro assassinated in the early 1960s, but the mob insisted on taking the job for free, according to a newly declassified document.
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