Overview

Cuba's former head of counterintelligence reveals four decades of plots to kill Castro. Cuba's former counterintelligence chief, Fabian Escalante, reviews the more-than-600 CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, a project code-named 'Executive Action'. Although melodramatic and at times quite comical, these CIA plans were deadly serious - and unconstitutional, as subsequent US government inquiries concluded, including the 1975 Commission headed by Senator Frank Church.

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Escalante's review of CIA covert operations against Cuba in the early years is to be welcomed, and should be widely read - and pondered. - Noam Chomsky

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Fabian Escalante is former head of Cuban counterintelligence and is highly respected by US researchers as an authority on CIA activities against Cuba. Although he was responsible for preparing Cuba's report on the Kennedy assassination in 1978, Escalante himself has recently been accused in the Miami Herald of complicity in that conspiracy.

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