1961–1966Primary sourceWell documented
The AM/LASH Files: Cubela's Long Plot
On the timeline · around 1961–1966 ·
What happened
For years the CIA cultivated the disillusioned Cuban major Rolando Cubela — AM/LASH — as an inside assassin. Beyond the 1963 poison pen, the agency offered him rifles with telescopic sights to shoot Castro. Cuban security eventually uncovered the plot, and Cubela was arrested in 1966.
Why it matters
The AM/LASH files document the CIA's most sustained and serious effort to have Castro killed from within his own government.
How we know
Detailed in the CIA Inspector General's 1967 report, later published in the State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series.