According to another description, the needle was “designed to be so fine that the target (Castro) would not sense its insertion and the agent would have time to escape before the effects were noticed.” The date on which a CIA officer in Paris handed this pen to a Cuban CIA “asset” is poignant: November 22, 1963, the same day President Kennedy was assassinated. Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, continued to use political and economic means, including sabotage and other forms of covert action, to undermine Cuba’s revolutionary government. He also, however, concluded that “we had been
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