John Lisle

That was the idea.

So Sidney Gottlieb was kind of involved in some of these that I talk about in the book.

Another one.

So you have the LSD, you have the depilatory.

Another one was to Photoshop images, basically, of Castro with a bunch of beautiful women around him and like a buffet of food in front of him.

And to have a caption underneath it that said, my ration is different to indicate like I'm getting all the benefits of, you know, this, you know, the spoils of society while my people are going hungry.

And so interesting.

you know, the idea was to spread this around Cuba and have people resent Castro for indulging in all these.

Yeah.

So those were attempts to discredit Castro.

And then there were several attempts to assassinate him that Sidney Gottlieb and others involved kind of in this story do.

So some of the main assassination attempts on Castro involved his hobby of ocean diving.

So he liked to dive in the ocean.

And one idea was that

what if we get this really beautiful shell that he would just be unable to pass up?

It would be so beautiful that if anyone swam by it, they would obviously want to pick it up.

We packed the shell full of explosives and put it on, have some kind of trigger mechanism for when you pick it up that detonates the explosives.

So when he's underwater, he's going to swim by this.

He's going to see this beautiful shell.

He's going to pick it up and it's going to explode.