“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event I would win the gold medal.”

600 Assasination attempts to Fidel Castro. Can you guess the country ?https://t.co/MMquZmH5lm

A 1963 attempt by the CIA (using the Mafia) to poison Fidel Castro's milkshake failed because the pill was frozenhttps://t.co/GZ6U5Y8B64

“Sam suggested they not resort to firearms, but if he could be furnished with some type of potent pill, that could be placed in Castro’s food or drink.”

“They ordered a chocolate milkshake, and in the rush and nervousness brought on by the moment for which he had prepared himself for over a year, he broke the capsule of poison while trying to pick it up, as it had stuck to the shelf of the freezer in which it was hidden…that moment was the closest the CIA got to assassinating Fidel.”

The story of Marita Lorenz, the CIA agent who was sent to kill Castro but slept with him instead https://t.co/qRQ57i2UdUpic.twitter.com/vUDdIiWNlk

“I thought he was going to shoot me, but he gave me the gun and asked, ‘Did you come to kill me?’ Then he took a puff on his cigar and closed his eyes. He made himself vulnerable because he knew I couldn’t do it. He still loved me and I still loved him.”

Fidel Castro survived a record 638 CIA assasination attempts on his life, only to die of old age. https://t.co/1eWgkJoUAc