Bizarre US plots included exploding cigars kill Fidel Castro fake video Osama bin Laden’s campfire drinking
In their time, America’s secret agencies have tried some outlandish schemes attack their country’s enemies, including, most famously, an attempt do away with Cuba’s Fidel Castro using an exploding cigar.
But scenario more preserve of careless Hollywood starlets such as Paris Hilton Kim Kardashian, CIA appears have plotted undermine Saddam Hussein gay sex tape.
According Washington Post’s security blog, some of America’s spooks believed that shooting fake video of Saddam cavorting teenage boy might destabilise his regime in runup US-led invasion in 2003. “It would look like it was taken by hidden camera. Very grainy, like it was secret videotaping of sex session,” Washington Post quoted one former CIA official as saying.
Nor was the Saddam sex tape the only idea floating around the more bizarre corners the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group. Other ploys involved interrupting Iraqi television with false newsflash that would announce Saddam was handing over power his hated feared son Uday. The presumed idea was shock the Iraqi people into rising up against their leaders thus make the invasion lot easier.
Perhaps thankfully, the tape and fake news broadcast were never made and the Post reported that top CIA brass repeatedly rejected the ideas.
But that did not stop a CIA video being shot of a fake Osama bin Laden sitting around a camp fire, drinking booze and boasting of his own gay conquests.
The video apparently used some of CIA’s “darker skinned” employees as extras playing terror chief’s henchmen. It does not seem have been released.
The Post said an anonymous US official had declined confirm or deny accounts. “If these ideas were ever floated by anyone at any time, they clearly didn’t go anywhere,” official said.
Such tactics are hardly the first time the US agencies have stretched their imaginations. A book entitled 638 Ways to Kill Castro detailed the many ways the Cuban leader had been targeted over the decades.
One the lesser known was plan to dispatch Castro exploiting his fascination scuba-diving. A batch colourful molluscs would be rigged with explosives the hope that he would be attracted to them while swimming underwater.
That plan, too, never got off drawing board.
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