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David L. Robbins's The Betrayal
Game The Betrayal Game is grounded in fact, set during the months leading up to the doomed rebel invasion of Cuba that began on April 17, 1961. During this period, CIA trained covert hit squads were landed on the island, poisoned cigars were sent Fidel’s way, bombs, bullets, aerosols, bacteria, and LSD were aimed at him; a panoply of plans were put in place by CIA to make him lose his voice, his beard, his sanity, or his life, with a degree of inventive perniciousness that would have made Borgia, Machiavelli, and 007 proud. Castro was targeted not only by the CIA, but by the American Mafia, the Cuban underground, other Caribbean and South American leaders, as well as many of his former closest associates. Fidel survived them all, sometimes inexplicably. The great fun of writing this novel was describing some of those unexplained mysteries, and positing an answer: Dr. Mikhal Lammeck, the hero and political science professor of The Assassins Gallery. |
According
to the Cuban security service, there have been at least 638 attempts
on the life of Fidel Castro. Most took place under the first four of
the ten American presidents Castro has exceeded in office, beginning
with Eisenhower. These assassination efforts were either direct operations
of the CIA or delegated by them to proxies. In addition, there have
been hundreds of volumes written by political historians and assassination
theorists speculating that some portion of the apparatus put in place
by CIA and the Mafia to kill Castro turned around on John Kennedy, and
murdered him for his perceived betrayal of the Bay of Pigs landing.
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