Fidel Castro 'saved' Ronald Reagan's life (from "Right wing extremists" claims El Jefe)

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | September 13, 2007 | Tom Leonard

[Stoat]

Fidel Castro 'saved' Ronald Reagan's life

By Tom Leonard in New York
 

Last Updated: 2:30am BST 13/09/2007

 

Fidel Castro has claimed that Cuba had once saved the life of President Ronald Reagan by tipping off American officials about an assassination plot by Right-wing extremists.

	The CIA is said to have made 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro

He made his extraordinary claim in a long newspaper essay read out on Cuban television in which he argued that his country had co-operated with the US in the past.

Castro wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at the United Nations was warned in 1984 of a plot by an extreme Right-wing group to kill Mr Reagan during a planned trip to North Carolina later that year.

At a meeting two blocks from the Cuban Mission in New York, the information was given to Robert C Muller, the US mission security chief at the UN, who passed it on to his government, said Castro.

He wrote: "The information was complete: the names of those implicated in the plan; day, time and hour where the assassination could occur; the type of weapon the terrorists had and where they kept their arms."

Castro did not reveal how the Cubans had stumbled on the plot but said their authorities learned later that the FBI had arrested several people in North Carolina.

The FBI said it would take some time to check the veracity of the claims. Records show Mr Reagan did visit Charlotte in North Carolina in October 1984, to boost local Republican campaigns.

It was claimed last year that the CIA made 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro, including using toxic cigars and exploding moluscs.

Castro also accused the US government of misleading the public about the September 11 attacks six years ago.

He claimed that a missile hit the Pentagon rather than a plane, because no trace was found of the passengers.

[Stoat]

The FBI said it would take some time to check the veracity of the claims.

Translation: "Gee thanks Fidel, but we're a little busy monitoring your agents who are trying to destroy our nation at the moment....we'll get back to you on that one, okay?  Be advised, however that we may not be able to get to it before your funeral."

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Also, from the article:

It was claimed last year that the CIA made 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro, including using toxic cigars and exploding moluscs.

I had always thought that it was exploding cigars and toxic mollusks".  Oh well, mere details, I suppose........

[Neville72]

WHAT A MORON.

[Stoat]

WHAT A MORON.

LMAO

[Grimmy]

LOL!! Silly boogers, them Ukers. Our guys killed Castro decades ago and replaced him with an animatronic clown purchased at a closing sale for a carnival that was going out of business.

Oh, wait... that’s probably still classified.

Umm.... no we didn’t. That thing is the real Clowno...errmm..I mean Castro.

I didn’t say that. OH! Look at the grouse!!

[hsalaw]

exploding moluscs

What? What's a "molusc" and how do you make it explode?

[weegee]

You can get stuned by the explosion. Better get in the shower now!

[Stoat]

exploding moluscs

What? What's a "molusc" and how do you make it explode?

I believe that a molusc is a British Mollusk, the females of which are identifiable by their miniskirts and go-go boots.

As far as how one makes them explode, that is classified information, last time I checked, but it can probably be determined by taking them out to dinner a few times.......

exploding moluscs

What? What's a "molusc" and how do you make it explode?

[Stoat]

“Exploding mollusc” ping.

[Alter Kaker]

Is Fidel Castro saved Reagan’s life, how come Reagan is dead?

[Stoat]

Is Fidel Castro saved Reagan’s life, how come Reagan is dead?

I'm guessing that Fidel will soon release a statement to the effect that Reagan, Janis Joplin and JFK are all still alive and living at a secret resort in Cuba.

[reagan_fanatic]

Castro also accused the US government of misleading the public about the September 11 attacks six years ago. He claimed that a missile hit the Pentagon rather than a plane, because no trace was found of the passengers.

Castro's a truther - figures.

[Augustinian monk]

“It was claimed last year that the CIA made 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro, including using toxic cigars and exploding moluscs.”

Wow, tha’ts pathetic if true. 638 failed attempts to knock off a banana republic dictator.

[Slings and Arrows]

If only he had tipped off Jimmy Carter about that killer rabbit...

[JoanVarga]

Fidel Castro is dead.

-Joan

[Jaysun]

It was claimed last year that the CIA made 638 attempts to kill Fidel Castro.....

That has to be BS. It's impossible to try ANYTHING more than 600 times and still fail.

[Abathar]

That’s not true, the dimwits have tried a heck of a lot more than that to prove global warming and failed....

[CT-Freeper]

That has to be BS. It's impossible to try ANYTHING more than 600 times and still fail.

Maybe one of those attempts was somebody sending Castro a box of 300 toxic cigars, so they count that as 300 attempts rather than one attempt...

[Jaysun]

Maybe one of those attempts was somebody sending Castro a box of 300 toxic cigars, so they count that as 300 attempts rather than one attempt...

Let's hope so because this is really embarrassing. Wile E. Coyote could have done better.

[Stoat]

Anyone wishing to read the entire essay from which this story is derived may do so here.

I'm not posting the text because, as is Fidel's habit, it's overly long, verbose and rambling

granma.cu -The Empire and Its Lies

[Long Island Pete]

He claimed that a missile hit the Pentagon rather than a plane, because no trace was found of the passengers.

So their family members are hiding them? /s