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Wednesday • November 19, 1997 The Battalion ON I b/j-fc I lophom lig for tf Pentagon’s ‘dirty tricks’ aim to humiliate Castro WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early 1960s, U.S. military strategists offered their bosses a bagful of dirty tricks to harass or humiliate Fidel Castro. The schemes ranged from flood ing Cuba with faked photos of an overweight Castro “with two beauties” to simulating the sinking of a U.S. warship in an exercise in tended to provoke a war. About 1,500 pages of newly-released De fense Department documents show that the Pentagon even considered squeezing anti- Cuba propaganda from a space disaster. The ‘Operation Dirty Trick’ memo — written just before John Glenn left Earth on America’s first orbital space mission in 1962 — proposed blam ing a Cuban impediment in case of a mishap. “This would be accomplished by manufac turing various pieces of evidence which would prove electronic interference on the part of the Cubans,” the memo said. Some of the ideas were bizarre but others were serious, intended to give the United States a pretext for attacking Cuba in re sponse to a faked provocation. None was carried out. But the proposals got as far as the secretary of defense, or even discussion with the new president, Lyn don Johnson, within a month of the assassi nation of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22,1963. The documents were declassified by the Defense Department at the instigation of the Assassination Records Review Board, a small agency created by Congress. “These documents further expand the histor ical record by illustrating the United States gov ernment’s deep interest in developing a policy that would force Castro from power during the early 1960s,” said board member Anna Nelson, a historian. When Kennedy was killed, Cuba was immediately suspected of involvement. 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