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Article: `OPERATION DIRTY TRICK' AND OTHER ANTI-CASTRO PLANS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 19, 1997
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In the early 1960s, U.S. military strategists offered their bosses a bagful of dirty tricks to harass or humiliate Fidel Castro. The schemes ranged from flooding Cuba with faked photos of an overweight Castro ``with two beauties'' to simulating the sinking of a U.S. warship in an exercise intended to provoke a war.
About 1,500 pages of newly released Defense Department documents show that the Pentagon even considered squeezing anti-Cuba propaganda from a space disaster.
The ``Operation Dirty Trick'' memo - written just before John Glenn left Earth on America's first orbital space mission in 1962 - proposed blaming a Cuban impediment in case of a mishap.