The CIA tried to kill Castro's BEARD #history

The most powerful spy agency on Earth had a plan for Fidel Castro. Step one: the beard. Sources - US Senate Select Committee (Church Committee), Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (1975), the Castro section: https://archive.org/details/allegedassassina00unit - CIA Inspector General, Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro (1967), National Security Archive: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/33578-document-19-cia-inspector-general-john-s-earman-report-plots-assassinate-fidel - The diving suit, from the CIA General Counsel's history (2016 release): https://paleofuture.com/blog/2016/2/26/the-cia-wanted-to-kill-fidel-castro-by-giving-him-a-diving-suit-laced-with-tuberculosis - "638 ways to kill Castro", The Guardian (2006): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/03/cuba.duncancampbell2 - "A Conversation with Fidel", Cigar Aficionado (1994), on quitting cigars in 1985: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/a-conversation-with-fidel-30th-anniversary Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): "Bossa Antigua", "Spy Glass". Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).