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Fidel Castro was a communist Cuban dictator who seized power from a non-communist Cuban dictator in 1959. He was the target of many Cuban exiles in the US and other Latin American countries as well as the interventionist CIA under Allen Dulles. Under the MKULTRA programs and other lesser known efforts plans were developed to assassinate Castro, even though none were successfully executed.

The CIA encouraged disaffected Cuban exiles to attempt a counter revolution by invading the country through the Bay of Pigs. While they had plenty of dark, untraceable money to help the would be invaders they did not have the support of President Kennedy, who denied the air support during the final hours. Dulles thought he would have to give consent once the invasion was underway.

Some conspiracy theories consider that the Cuban government could have been behind the events in Dallas, but this was highly unlikely since Castro and Kennedy had been communicating using back channels to establish a more workable relationship between the two countries. Castro was not happy when heard President Kennedy was dead as his hopes for better relationship with the US died with the president.

Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
by Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro

The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.

Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own story. But only in the twilight of his years was he prepared to set out the details of his remarkable biography for the world to read before his death in 2016. This book is nothing less than his living testament.

In these pages, Castro narrates a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his elementary school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his intense comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements (especially its large military involvement in fighting apartheid South Africa in Angola); his relations with prominent public figures such as Boris Yeltsin, Pope John Paul II, and Saddam Hussein; and his dealings with no less than ten successive American presidents, from Eisenhower to George W. Bush.

634 Ways to Kill Fidel
by Fabian Escalante

Fabián Escalante, the founder of the Cuban intelligence services, and head of the Cuban State Security Department, provides a clear-eyed first-person account of his experiences defending Fidel Castro from the extraordinary attempts to take his life. From lethal poisons to plastic explosives to bazookas, Escalante introduces and describes an array of assassination plots and historical figures and depicts the ensuing cat-and-mouse game in the midst of the Cold War.

Written in the style of a political thriller yet based on real events, 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro is a well-researched and documented series of vignettes put together by multiple investigations in Cuba and the experiences of the author, who participated in several of them; dozens of interviews with participants; extensive documentary evidence; and the collaboration of officials, and undercover agents who dismantled these plots. Filled with harrowing stories of deceitful FBI tactics such as moles who infiltrated the revolutionary Cuban government and gained a reputation with them with the ultimate goal of bombing their military bases. As well as undercover attempts to give Fidel poison laced cigars, Escalante takes the reader from DC to New York, Miami to Havana and uncovers the intricate conspiracy to silence dissent and kill Fidel Castro.
634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro is filled to the brim with historical details on the CIA, Cuba, the communist movement, US government officials, and Fidel himself. Escalante’s first-hand account provides evidence of the lengths to which the CIA went through to assassinate Fidel Castro and the determined efforts to protect him and what he stood for.