CIA staff in 1960 prepared an attempt on the Cuban policy of Raul Castro, this is reported on the website of the National Security Archive at the University of George Washington.
According to declassified documents, high-ranking officials offered a pilot of an aircraft that carved Castro from Prague to Havana, ten thousand dollars after the successful completion of the operation. The pilot was supposed to try to organize a plane crash.
He asked the US authorities to take care of his sons if he dies himself. Later, CIA employees in Havana received a telegram about the abolition of the plan, but the pilot did not know about it. However, upon return, he said that he did not have a “opportunity to arrange an accident.”
Earlier it was reported that the first secretary of the Central Communist Party of Cuba Raul Castro is going to leave his post. It is expected that his position will take the successor on April 19. Thus, a long-term era of the board of the Castro brothers, which came to power in 1959 will be completed in Cuba.
Raul Castro – the younger brother of Revolutionary Fidel Castro. He served as head of state from 2008 to 2018. Since 2011, politician is headed by the Central Communist Party. After the victory of the revolution in 1959, Raul Castro for 50 years was a military minister.