by John McEvoy, New Eastern Outlook:
Fidel Castro’s secret service chief once estimated that 634 attempts were made against the Cuban leader’s life.
From exploding cigars to poisoned pills, Washington’s campaign to assassinate Castro remains an infamous case of Cold War covert action.
The presence of a revolutionary government in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, was intolerable for the US government.
What is less well known is that Britain collaborated with Washington’s anti-Castro operations in the early 1960s.
A Foreign Office document, classified for six decades and only recently released at the National Archives, reveals British diplomats discussed the “disappearance” of Castro with the CIA.