Closest CIA bid to kill Castro was poisoned drink
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The closest the CIA came to killing Cuba's Fidel Castro was a 1963 attempt with a poison pill delivered by American mobsters that was to be slipped into a chocolate milkshake, a former Cuban intelligence chief said.
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HAVANA, Feb. 12 -- Cuban President Fidel Castro warned the United States on Saturday against plotting to kill his most important ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Colombia's main rebel group asked followers to mount an assassination attempt against President Bush during his visit to Colombia last week, Defense Minister Jorge Uribe said. There was no evidence Saturday that rebels even tried to organize such an attack.
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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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One leading candidate has been debilitated by what he said was an attempt to poison him.
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Fidel Castro says US presidential hopeful John McCain lied about Cuba's role in torturing US POWs in Vietnam.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison in a radioactive form to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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LONDON -- Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned by a radioactive substance, traces of which were found in his urine, at his home, and at a London restaurant and hotel he visited the day he became ill, authorities said.
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The barman who served tea to murdered former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko has told The Sunday Telegraph that he was distracted while an assassin allegedly sprayed deadly poison into the drink.
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A former Russian spy fighting for his life in a British hospital may have been given poison laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal, the toxicologist treating him said on Tuesday.
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The discoveries are the first evidence that tie a specific person to the poison that killed Alexander V. Litvinenko.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the Afghan presidential election narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban yesterday in the latest bid to derail Saturday&#39;s poll.
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In late 2005, the retiring CIA station chief in Bangkok sent a classified cable to his superiors in Langley asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand that in part portrayed intelligence officers using simulated drowning to extract information from suspected...
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A message apparently from Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he is too ill to attend his own birthday celebrations.
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Rudy Giuliani took his coffee black, with artificial sweetener. Charlie Pagan took his Nestle's chocolate milk straight from the bottle.
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A former Russian spy poisoned in Britain and now hospitalized under guard may have been targeted for his criticism of former colleagues and his investigation into the killing of a prominent anti-Kremlin ...Comment