CIA tainted Castro’s cigars with botulinum toxin in 1960 operations.
Evidence
In August 1960, Ray Treichler, one of the CIA’s scientists, tainted a box of fifty of Castro’s favorite brand of cigars with botulinum toxin. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 60
Categorization
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 60
- XREF: connects to: Castro suspected the CIA introduced biological plagues to undermine Cuba. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 107
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Library Connections
- Castro suspected the CIA introduced biological plagues to undermine Cuba.
#corroborates(0.85) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 107