John Lisle

One of them is...

How do we get prisoners to speak during an interrogation?

Maybe there is some kind of truth drug that can get them to tell us the secrets that we want to know.

Another is maybe we can use this to discredit individuals like Fidel Castro.

Let's say we dose him with LSD before a big speech.

He appears to be crazy and his people are going to lose trust in him because he's making nonsense.

You know, he's just talking gibberish.

Was that proposed?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

They were proposed a plan to put LSD into cigars that would sneak into Castro's kind of place that he would smoke before he gave a speech.

The original plan was to discredit him, and then the later plan was to kill him.

So there were a couple original plans to discredit him.

One is to sneak him LSD to make him appear insane so that his people will lose faith in him.

Another one was to slip what's called thallium salts into his shoes.

And these are depilatories.

They make your hair fall out.

And so the idea was that, you know, he's got this masculine, masculine allure with his big beard.

But if we can slip these depilatories into his shoes and he puts them on, his beard's going to fall out.

And like Samson, he's going to lose his power or something like that.