Castro, Fidel

Fidel Castro s takeover of Cuba in 1959 had been a bitter pill for the Lansky syndicate to swallow however, it taught the old wizard a valuable lesson don t take politics for granted. Before he socked tens of millions of dollars into his Grand Bahamas dreamland, Lansky would make absolutely certain that he was treading on solid political ground. 

CIA, (New York, 1978), p. 442. In an interview with one of die authors in May 1978, Colby claimed that all the allegations of CIA assassination plots really involve only one case — Fidel Castro , and there he admitted that the CIA did plan a murder. 

San Francisco Examiner, 22 October 1979. The Polish army captain was said to have told American diplomats that he had heard of the plan while imprisoned in the Gulag Archipelago in 1976. A counter-allegation was made by Fidel Castro in July 1981, when he claimed that an outbreak of dengue which had killed 113 Cubans and infected a further 270,000 was the work of the CIA (speech at Victoria de las Tunas, Cuba, 27 July 1981). 

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is charged with the murder. He is assassinated in jail by Jack Ruby. Both Oswald and Ruby are widely regarded as insane, and the crimes are dismissed as the senseless violence of two lunatics. John F. Kennedy was killed by a lunatic, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had momentarily given loyalty to the paranoid Fidel Castro of Cuba. And Oswald was, in turn, within two days, slain by another madman. Jack Ruby. Had Oswald received psychiatric help when he was young, John Kennedy might be alive today. 

February Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba. 

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