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Robert
Kennedy Wanted Fidel Castro Dead
Former
US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, brother of
murdered President John F. Kennedy, personally
headed a ploy to assassinate Cuban President
Fidel Castro, a memorandum by the White House
reveals Saturday.
The document, disclosed by the George Washington
University s National Security Archive, refers
to a conversation between former President
Gerard Ford and his Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, on January 4, 1975.
In the talk, Kissinger told Ford that once CIA
director Richard Helms confirmed Robert Kennedy
led an assassination plan against the Cuban
leader.
"Robert Kennedy personally managed the operation
on the assassination of Castro," Kissinger told
Ford.
The archives corroborate arbitrary actions of
domestic surveillance, kidnappings,
assassination plots against foreign leaders, and
chemical trials with humans, among other
shocking disclosures.
Current CIA director Michael Hayden stated on
Thursday that all of declassified documents will
be made known next week, though some information
was already divulged by the National Security
Archive s web page.
The intelligence reports, with the allegoric
name "The Family Jewels," also provide details
on infiltration of leftist groups in Latin
America and other world regions in the 1960s.
Furthermore, it will be disclosed how the CIA
organized its espionage in China, Cuba, and the
former Soviet Union, and its constant
supervision of several US journalists, according
to the sources.
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