{"id":2041,"date":"1960-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1960-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2041"},"modified":"1960-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1960-08-15T00:00:00","slug":"1018151960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1960\/08\/15\/1018151960\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/15\/1960"},"content":{"rendered":"

“AUG 1960: [CIA officer] Richard Bissell meets with Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the CIA’s Office of Security, and discusses with him ways to eliminate or assassinate Fidel Castro. Edwards proposes that the job be done by assassins hand-picked by the American underworld, specifically syndicate interests who have been driven out of their Havana gambling casinos by the Castro regime. Bissell gives Edwards the go-ahead to proceed. Between August 1960, and April 1961, the CIA with the help of the Mafia pursues a series of plots to poison or shot Castro. The CIA\u2019s own internal report on these efforts states that these plots \u2018were viewed by at least some of the participants as being merely one aspect of the over-all active effort to overthrow the regime that culminated in the Bay of Pigs.\u2019\u201d [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

“The Bay of Pigs Invasion\/Playa Giron: A Chronology of Events,” The National Security Archive, NSArchive2.gwu.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“AUG 1960: [CIA officer] Richard Bissell meets with Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the CIA’s Office of Security, and discusses with him ways to eliminate or assassinate Fidel Castro. Edwards proposes that the job be done by assassins hand-picked by the American underworld, specifically syndicate interests who have been driven out of their Havana gambling […]<\/p>\n

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King, head of the CIA's Western Division, writes a memorandum for [CIA Official] Richard Bissell, and CIA Director, Allen Dulles stating that [Fidel] Castro has now established a dictatorship of the far left. The intelligence community estimates an increase in Cuban support for other revolutionary movements\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "quotes"","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2551,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1961\/03\/11\/2203111961\/","url_meta":{"origin":2041,"position":2},"title":"3\/11\/1961","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 11, 1961","format":false,"excerpt":"\"MAR 11, 1961: At a White House meeting between 10:05 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., Richard Bissell [CIA Deputy Director for Plans] presents the CIA's Proposed Operation Against Cuba to President [John F.] Kennedy. 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