''Spies, sex, Mafia hit men and James Bond-like killing
devices. They sound like the stuff of an Ian Fleming novel or a movie
thriller. But these are true-life details from America’s first foray
into the assassination business — a rather messy affair, as 007 might
say.
They can be found, many for the first time, in recently
declassified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F.
Kennedy. The JFK files, released by the National Archives in batches
since last year, have already been picked over for signs of any new
information about Kennedy’s death in Dallas. (To the chagrin of
conspiracy theorists, the documents contain little evidence that anyone
besides gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was responsible for the tragedy.) But
far less noticed were the files’ fascinating new insights about another
much-debated Cold War conspiracy: a top-secret killing plan centered on
the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli to
murder Cuba’s young communist leader, Fidel Castro..''
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