Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issuing a report by mid-July. Last week, however, the committee was stymied temporarily when Robert Maheu, a former associate of reclusive Billionaire Howard Hughes, refused to answer questions about his role as a liaison between the CIA and organized crime figures in an alleged plot to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. The committee has voted to try to get Maheu to testify by granting him limited immunity from prosecution. CIA schemes to do away with Castro sometimes reached bizarre proportions. TIME learned last week that in 1960 some agency officials proposed to kill him with poisoned cigars...
...During his three appearances before the Senate committee-more than ten hours at the witness table-CIA Director William Colby said, according to intelligence sources, that the agency had worked with Chicago gangsters on plans to kill Castro. In one case, the hit man was to have been a Cuban army major who was close to the Cuban leader. The allotted fee for the job: $150,000. (For another example...
Exactly what the Mafia rangers accomplished against Cuba is still unclear. Some intelligence officials doubt that a single guerrilla from Chicago ever set foot on the island. For his part, Cain later was to boast how he had led hit-and-run raids on Cuban power stations...
Until historians ascertain what additional facts and alternatives, if any, were available to President Ford, they cannot complete their evaluation of the Mayaguez crisis other than to commend the courage of our armed forces. But clearly, they will not compare this incident to the Cuban missile crisis-a potential nuclear confrontation between two superpowers that was ultimately resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized...
Both Granello and Plumeri later were victims of gangland murders in New York City. Until their executions, both men fretted over the thought of their greenbacks slowly rotting in the Cuban earth...