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I think we need an appreciation thread for the great man.
He saw off how 11 presidents and trolled the shit out of the United States of America for 56 years?
He was at the centre of a stand off that almost caused a nuclear war, until America dick tucked and Russia let them live.
He also survived 638 assassination attempts and lived to a ripe old age.
Lets face it the guy was a fucking don.
Who didn't kill Castro?
List of assassination attempts per US administration:
5. Character assassination
When: 1960
Plan A: Spray the radio broadcasting studio with a chemical similar to LSD, so that he would hallucinate on air.
Plan B: Give him cigars that would disorient him while on television.
Plan C: Dust the inside of Castro's shoes with a chemical that would make his iconic beard fall out.
4. Flesh-eating wetsuit
When: 1961
Dust the inside of a diving suit with fungus that caused a chronic skin disease, and put tuberculosis in the breathing apparatus.
3. Exploding seashell
When: 1963
CIA looked into the idea of luring him to his doom with a large, brightly painted sea shell packed with explosives. The CIA purchased a large number of shells for this purpose, but there's no evidence the weaponised marine life were ever deployed.
2. Mafia ice cream surprise
When: 1961
Castro loved ice cream and the CIA hit upon a plan to poison his dessert. They asked for help from the casino mafia who had been kicked out after Castro took power and outlawed gambling. Mafia was able to slip a jar of poison pills to a cafe worker in the capital of Havana.
At the crucial moment, the poison could not be dislodged from inside the freezer. It was frozen stuck.
1. Exploding Cigar
When: 1966
CIA approached a New York City police officer with the idea of slipping Castro a cigar packed with enough explosives to take his head off. In 1960, the CIA laced a box of Castro's favourite kind of cigars with poison, but the package never made it to Castro.
Close but no cigar.
He saw off how 11 presidents and trolled the shit out of the United States of America for 56 years?
He was at the centre of a stand off that almost caused a nuclear war, until America dick tucked and Russia let them live.
He also survived 638 assassination attempts and lived to a ripe old age.
Lets face it the guy was a fucking don.
Who didn't kill Castro?
List of assassination attempts per US administration:
- Eisenhower: 38
- Kennedy: 42
- Johnson: 72
- Nixon: 184
- Carter: 64
- Reagan: 197
- Bush Sr: 16
- Clinton: 21
5. Character assassination
When: 1960
Plan A: Spray the radio broadcasting studio with a chemical similar to LSD, so that he would hallucinate on air.
Plan B: Give him cigars that would disorient him while on television.
Plan C: Dust the inside of Castro's shoes with a chemical that would make his iconic beard fall out.
4. Flesh-eating wetsuit
When: 1961
Dust the inside of a diving suit with fungus that caused a chronic skin disease, and put tuberculosis in the breathing apparatus.
3. Exploding seashell
When: 1963
CIA looked into the idea of luring him to his doom with a large, brightly painted sea shell packed with explosives. The CIA purchased a large number of shells for this purpose, but there's no evidence the weaponised marine life were ever deployed.
2. Mafia ice cream surprise
When: 1961
Castro loved ice cream and the CIA hit upon a plan to poison his dessert. They asked for help from the casino mafia who had been kicked out after Castro took power and outlawed gambling. Mafia was able to slip a jar of poison pills to a cafe worker in the capital of Havana.
At the crucial moment, the poison could not be dislodged from inside the freezer. It was frozen stuck.
1. Exploding Cigar
When: 1966
CIA approached a New York City police officer with the idea of slipping Castro a cigar packed with enough explosives to take his head off. In 1960, the CIA laced a box of Castro's favourite kind of cigars with poison, but the package never made it to Castro.
Close but no cigar.
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