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CIA Assassin in Castro Plots Dies Safely in Bed

Cold War plot to kill Castro with poison pen disrupted by Cuban intelligence

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Jefferson Morley
Oct 07, 2022
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Rolando Cubela, a Cuban revolutionary who plotted with the CIA to kill Fidel Castro, died in Miami in August, his passing unnoticed in the English-language U.S. press. While the U.K. Telegraph ran a (paywalled) obituary, neither the New York Times or the Washington Post has reported the death of a man whose rise and fall once convulsed the governments o…

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