Castro's head worth $150,000: CIA files
Thursday, 28 June 2007
WASHINGTON, June 27 (AFP): The CIA offered 150,000 dollars to mafia figures to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, just one of several CIA plots against foreign leaders detailed in 693 pages of classified US documents released Tuesday.
Other targets of CIA targets, long alleged but only now revealed in the intelligence agency's own documents, included Congo independence leader Patrice Lumumba as well as Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo.
The documents also detail apparently illegal government spying on US citizens opposed to the Vietnam War and on prominent journalists in the 1970s, as well as experiments using drugs on unsuspecting subjects.
Among the released CIA files is a lengthy memo which exposes the agency's recruitment of top mafia figures already wanted for crimes in order to assassinate Cuba's communist leader.
Other targets of CIA targets, long alleged but only now revealed in the intelligence agency's own documents, included Congo independence leader Patrice Lumumba as well as Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo.
The documents also detail apparently illegal government spying on US citizens opposed to the Vietnam War and on prominent journalists in the 1970s, as well as experiments using drugs on unsuspecting subjects.
Among the released CIA files is a lengthy memo which exposes the agency's recruitment of top mafia figures already wanted for crimes in order to assassinate Cuba's communist leader.