The U.S. government invented all sorts of harebrained schemes to kill
Fidel Castro—and I mean really, truly off-the-wall plots. There was the
time the CIA tried to poison his milkshake.
There was the ploy to discredit him by spraying him down with LSD and
watching him go insane during a live radio broadcast. There was, I shit
you not, an idea to pack his omnipresent cigar with explosives. Then there was Marita Lorenz.
-Jezebel