CIA 'hired gangsters to kill Castro'
The CIA recruited a former FBI agent to approach two of America’s most-wanted mobsters and gave them poison pills meant for Fidel Castro during his first year in power, according to newly-declassified papers.
Contained amid hundreds of pages of CIA internal reports collectively known as “the family jewels”, the official confirmation of the 1960 plot against the Cuban leader was certain to be welcomed by Communist authorities as more proof of their long-standing claims that the US wants Castro dead.
