Castro himself rarely talked about his personal life, despite his famous volubility. Journalist Ann Louise Bardach wrote in a 2009 book that Castro told her he had fathered "almost a tribe" of children. Castro himself rarely talked about his personal life, despite his famous volubility. In 1959, just after seizing power, Castro had an affair with a young German woman, Marita Lorenz, who says the CIA hired her to assassinate him. Castro also reportedly had another son, Jorge Angel, from a 1955 affair with Maria Laborde, an activist in his movement.

Source: Daily Nation November 29, 2016 03:54 UTC