Despite 638 attempts, the Central Intelligence Bureau has failed to do what natural causes has managed to do in an instant. The death of Fidel Castro, at 90, is less a success for covert operations and more attributable to Mr. Castro choking on a ‘Werther's Original’.
Cuba under Castro is the story of a small island that stood up to the tyranny of a neighbouring continent; very much like Brexit but where the money actually goes to healthcare. One CIA operative said of the belated victory: ‘We were just lulling him into a false sense of security…and a cosy nap. It was only a matter of time or a matter of lacing his Horlicks with strychnine. Anyway, we’d already rigged his Stannah stair-lift to explode.’
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