“It was felt that the $150,000.00 to assassinate FIDEL CASTRO plus $5,000 expense money was too high,” the memo noted. — Michael E. Miller[The latest revelations from the JFK assassination records]Or was Fidel only worth two cents? — Rachel WeinerCIA plots to kill CastroSome of the papers recounted the agency’s well-chronicled schemes to kill Fidel Castro. Some of the files predate the Kennedy assassination by nearly two decades. — Ian ShapiraCorrection: An earlier version of this article misidentified the person the CIA asked to give Fidel Castro a contaminated diving suit.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 05:23 UTC