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Castro: US is still a 'killing machine'
(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-02 10:12
HAVANA - Fidel Castro said Sunday that the US government continues to be
a "killing machine" after revelations that nearly 50 years ago it tried
to use American mobsters to kill him with poison pills.
Fidel Castro exhales cigar smoke in this March 1985 file photo during an
interview in Havana. [AP]
"The empire has created a real killing machine made up not only of the
CIA and its methods," the Cuban leader wrote in the latest of his nearly
daily essays, published Sunday in the Juventud Rebelde.
President Bush "has constructed powerful and expensive superstructures of
intelligence ... that lead to war, injustice, hunger and death everywhere
on the planet," Castro wrote.
CIA documents made public last week described the agency's recruitment of
a former FBI agent in August 1960 to use mobsters and poison pills to
kill Castro. Information about the plot was among hundreds of pages of
CIA internal reports, known as "the family jewels."
The plan was scrapped after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion
of Cuba in April 1961, and US authorities retrieved the poison pills.
The 80-year-old Castro has not been seen in public in almost a year since
handing power to a provisional government headed by his younger brother
while he recovers from intestinal surgery.
Communist Cuba's parliament on Friday unanimously approved a resolution
saying that the 47-year-old plot to assassinate Castro still reflects the
reality of US policy toward the island.
"The conduct of the Bush government clearly shows its intention to keep
employing the worst possible tactics against Cuba," it declared.
US law has forbidden official assassination attempts since the
administration of Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, and Washington denies it
has tried to kill Castro since then.
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