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I must apologize for some of the errors I promoted on this site years ago. This section is entirely inaccurate. As the report makes clear, the goal was to incapacitate the colonel for 3 months, not to kill him; the target was colonel Fadhil al-Mahdawi.

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The CIA made a number of attempts to assassinate Castro, often with White House approval, as in Operation Mongoose.

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~~====Iraq 1960====~~

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In February 1960, the United States planned a coup against the government of [[Iraq]] headed by dictator Abd al-Karim Qasim, who two years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy. The U.S. was concerned about the growing influence of Iraqi Communist Party government officials under his administration, as well as his threats to invade [[Kuwait]], which almost caused a war between Iraq and Britain.

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According to the [[Church Committee]], the CIA planned a "special operation" to "incapacitate" an Iraqi Colonel believed to be "promoting Soviet bloc political interests in Iraq." The aim was to send Qasim a poisoned handkerchief, "which, while not likely to result in total disablement, would be certain to prevent the target from pursuing his usual activities for a minimum of three months." During the course of the Committee's investigation, the CIA stated that the handkerchief was "in fact never received (if, indeed, sent)." It added that the colonel: "Suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad (an event we had nothing to do with) after our handkerchief proposal was considered."

====Dominican Republic 1961====

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