peashooter85:How Fidel Castro’s girlfriend tried to assassinate himOne of Fidel’s lovers was a woman
peashooter85:How Fidel Castro’s girlfriend tried to assassinate himOne of Fidel’s lovers was a woman named Marita Lorenz, a German born American woman turned anti-Castro insurgent and CIA informant. The two met in 1959, two months after Castro deposed the Batista Government, while he was a passenger on her father’s cruise liner. As a result of their relationship, Marita became pregnant twice. According to Marita the pregnancies resulted in a miscarriage or forced abortion. Details on that point are fuzzy and Marta’s account on her pregnancies are inconsistent. However it is clear that Marita was extremely angry at Castro for his blase attitude toward the loss of her children. At that point Marita became an anti-Castro counter revolutionary, joining a secret Florida based group in 1960. During her membership in the group, she was approached by CIA operative Frank Sturgis, who went by the alias, “Francisco Fiorini”. Franks Sturgis is certainly an interesting figure in history. Originally he was a Castro supporter who helped train his revolutionary army and ran guns for him. In the photo below he claims to be standing on a mass grave of 71 Batista supporters he personally executed. Apparently he had a change of heart and become an anti-Castro supporter, organizing many anti-Castro militant groups. Later, he would be one of the five robbers who broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, an unprecedented scandal which brought down US President Richard Nixon.Sturgis came to Marita with an offer to assassinate Castro and provided several pills filled with botulinum toxin which were said to kill a man in 30 seconds. Marita smuggled the pills in a can of facial cream. When it came time to taint Castro’s food with the poison, she found that the pills had dissolved in the facial cream. Unable to feed Castro the poisoned facial cream, she gave up the attempt and considered the mission a failure. However, Castro was able to sense that something was wrong suspected that Marita was trying to kill him. Marita denied being with the CIA, saying that we she was going to do she was doing for herself, and no one else. In response, Castro handed her a loaded pistol and told her to go ahead and kill him. Marita held the pistol to his chest, but claims that when it came to actually committing the deed, she couldn’t actually do it. At that point Castro laid back chewing a cigar saying, “You can’t kill me, nobody can kill me.” Then according to Marita, in a moment reminiscent of Bond film, her heart melted for him once again, she exclaimed that she still loved him, and they made sweet lovin’ one more time.After Marita’s attempted assassination of Castro, she returned to the United States where she became the mistress of exiled Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, a relationship which produced two daughters. Yeah, she apparently had a thing for Latin American dictators. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy she testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations that she suspected John Sturgis had recruited Lee Harvey Oswald and masterminded a conspiracy to kill the President, yet no evidence was found supporting her claims. In the 1970′s she married the manager of an apartment building in New York. The couple were recruited by the FBI to spy on Eastern Bloc diplomats and Mafia bosses who frequented their hotel. Marita was permitted to travel to Cuba in 1985, where she met with Castro one more time. Today she currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. -- source link