Castro blasts CIA on spy papers
Cuba’s Fidel Castro says CIA admissions of illicit Cold War tactics disguise the fact the US is still using them.
Last week the CIA published documents called the “Family Jewels”, revealing spy plots and assassination attempts.
The documents included plans to use Mafia help to kill Fidel Castro.
Mr Castro, still recovering after surgery last year, said in the official media the US was trying to pretend the tactics belonged to another era.
“Everything described in the documents is still being done, only in a more brutal manner around the entire planet, including an increasing number of illegal actions in the very United States,” President Castro wrote.
In an editorial called the Killing Machine, he wrote: “Sunday is a good day to read what appears to be science fiction.”
One of the key revelations of the documents was that the CIA tried to persuade mobster Johnny Roselli in 1960 to plot the assassination of the Cuban leader.
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