Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
🕑 Added 2024-07-15 19:10:58 +0000 UTCThe United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. There were also attempts by Cuban exiles, sometimes in cooperation with the CIA. The 1975 Church Committee claimed eight proven CIA assassination attempts between 1960 and 1965. In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued an Executive Order banning political assassinations. In 2006, Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba's intelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts. The last known plot to assassinate Castro was by Cuban exiles in 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_assassination_attempts_on_Fidel_Castro
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Erik Aldridge
This tracks
J
Bill Clinton liked to watch Monica Lewinsky masturbate with a (possibly Cuban) cigar.
Ronan da Rosa
I give up. Burying a Cuban like a cigar? Penis joke? Can someone whose knees click explain the joke, please?
William Evan Barnes
I just wanted to post this here so that someone else might see it: you all should go back and listen to the opening sketch of the Salvation Army episode! I was listening to old episodes while doing spreadsheet work, and oh god damn is it excellent in light of new information! Wow
outaspaceman
The opening bothered me.. So much I had to consider this response carefully.. If, as I understand it, any attack on Eli just brings misery to Cecil, an attack on Tom rebounds on to whom..? His Ex..? Phew.. Now I can sleep again..👍
DataAngel
Animator Chuck Jones was running the CIA.
Julie LaVoice
One of my favorite episodes you've done! That was the best joke, Eli. I had to brace myself to keep from falling over I was laughing so hard!
Bunny Bismuth, Bun-Bun of Seething
So do you guys know what the Rule of Goats is?
Denise Huston
Okay but Why did they need to design special goddamn poison? Poison just exists IRL, we didn’t need the Colonel's secret fucking blend. Rat poison probably would have been fine, and would be available to food service workers, presumably.
Mockingbird Nation
One of the reasons the Cuba stuff was such a clusterfuck was the CIA office in charge was all incompetent young dudes who DIDN’T EVEN SPEAK SPANISH and wouldn’t listen to the EXTREMELY experienced women in senior positions because vaginas.
Lora Forsyth
That thumping you kept hearing was Dana Carvey hearing Noah's Bush impression.
Oke518
So apropo