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The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?
Corn, David | March 26, 2001 issue

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The article presents information on a plot which was approved by John and Robert Kennedy to kill Fidel Castro at Ernest Hemingway's Cuban Farm. It's no secret now that President Kennedy and his brother the Attorney General wanted Fidel Castro out of the way. After Castro thwarted the Kennedy-approved and CIA-orchestrated invasion at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, the Kennedy's continued to seek means of toppling the Cuban leader. In early 1962, according to a CIA memo, Bobby Kennedy told a group of CIA and Pentagon officials that a solution to the Cuban problem carried "the top priority in the United States government all else is secondary

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UNITED States. Central Intelligence Agency; KENNEDY, Robert; EXECUTIONS & executioners; CASTRO, Fidel, 1926-; UNITED States -- Foreign relations; UNITED States
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