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How America Hired the Mafia to Kill Castro

In August 1960 the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a mission to eliminate the Cuban Premier, Fidel Castro, by any means necessary. In their eyes, that meant hiring some of America's most prolific criminals and tasking them with assassinating him. This is that story.

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