The CIA tried to get mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1960
Seven hundred pages of documents, until now secret,
reveal chilling details of an "thriller" Hollywood's darkest secrets of the spy agency's report entitled "Family Jewels" refers to the period between 1953 and 1973 and reveals, among many others, the Agency's efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro in 1960. As if it were a film script is told how the CIA contacted a member of the Mafia, Johnny Roselli, under the pretext that several international companies based in Cuba were suffering losses as a result of Castro's actions. The Agency offered him 150 thousand U.S. dollars and made clear that the U.S. government was outside the operation. Roselli did not want to be involved but helped the Agency to contact the successor to Al Capone in Chicago, Momo Giancana and Santos Trafficante, another notorious gangster of the era. Giancana, also known as Sam Gold, suggested to assassinate Fidel Castro by providing some kind of pill in food or drink. After several unsuccessful attempts, the project was discontinued due to failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. In the documents, also provide details on experiments with drugs like LSD on civilians, monitoring and spying on journalists or acts of espionage against Americans who opposed the Vietnam War. The documents were obtained through the efforts of the director of a private entity, the National Security Archive, Thomas Blanton, who requested the declassification invoking the Freedom of Information Act. The scene seems out of a low-ranking black police. Only this time, 14 September 1960, the cocktail was very real: CIA, a mafia of Las Vegas Italian origin and name, a hotel room in New York and a mission: to kill Fidel Castro. Of course, denying that America was behind the murder. The "jewels", also known as the "skeletons in the closet" of the CIA, include all kinds of clandestine and illegal operations committed between 1950 and 1970, political killings, domestic spying on students, black activists and pacifists; violation of addresses and letters, and drug experimentation with LSD in people who were unaware they were the guinea pigs. The suggested were Momo Salvatore Giancana, aka "Sam Gold" - and Santo Trafficante, two of the ten most wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and all the country's security forces. Giancana was leading "family" in Chicago or, as explained in the CIA report was "the successor to Al Capone" and Trafficant-perhaps in honor of his name-was "the boss of Cosa Nostra for Cuban operations, who do not itemize. The CIA decided to ignore all these details and discussed the plans with Giancana in Miami. Expert in these matters, the new Capone recommended avoiding firearms and opt for a poison that could be diluted in Castro's food or drink. "He indicated that had a possible candidate, Juan Orta, a Cuban official who had received illegal payments from gambling interests, who still had access to Castro and was in financial straits." Cordova is Juan Orta Orta, former director of the offices of Castro. According to the CIA revealed, Orta first passed "several weeks" trying to poison Castro. By then, the CIA said it had suspended the operation that had been encouraged by Robert Kennedy, as the powerful former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, and counted at least with the blessing of then CIA director, Allen Dulles, as Declassified documents reveal. The red light came the assassination of Castro, however, after the dismal failure of the invasion of the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, authorized by then President John Kennedy's brother Robert. Anyway, the "jewels" of the CIA continued to accrue until early 1973, domestic spying, including the Watergate scandal, other murders, and even confinement in a cell without a bed of a KGB defector Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, between August 1965 and October 1967. The Argentina appears, but in another stack of documents declassified: the analysis of intelligence from the CIA, seeking to unravel, for example, fights between Chinese and Soviet communist control the movement in Latin America. They also appear tensions within the Catholic Church in the region between the sectors "reactionary" as Tradition, Family and Property "and" radical "Third-priests. The publication of the "jewels" offers a look at "a very different time and a very different agency," said agency director Michael Hayden, recognizing that when the government conceals information from the guesses tend to "fill the gap." But nothing he said even less-ordered declassified on covert operations underway in the "fight against terrorism" that began on 11 September 2001. Prisons and rendition flights, interrogation techniques, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are among the spots of the new generation of CIA experts and human rights advocates want to vent.