HOW NOT TO KILL CASTRO

Recently released CIA documents reveal how the US hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Here we show a selection of other US attempts on the Cubon leader's life.

A plan for a poison pill to be placed in Castro's coffee was abandoned when it failed to disolve in tests

In what is perhaps the best known attempt on Castro's life, the CIA invented an exploding cigar

Castro's love of scuba diving led the CIA to envision exploding a seashell while he swam past

200lb (90kg) of explosives were placed under a podium in Panama in 2000 only to be found during routine safety checks

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