5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
Assassination is one of the oldest tools in the struggles for power. Here are 5 incredible plots that changed the course of history...
5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro is thought to have been targeted by over 600 CIA assassination plots during his 49-year rules over communist Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Some of the most bizarre plots included conch shells rigged with explosives at Castro's favorite diving spot, exploding cigars, and poisoned wetsuits.
Fidel Castro
However, the closet the CIA came to killing Fidel Castro was a 1963 attempt to slip poison into his chocolate milkshake.
Fidel Castro
The CIA arranged for Mafia members on the FBI's 10 most wanted list to provide poison pills to a waiter at the Havana Libre Hotel.
Fidel Castro
Castro ordered his milkshake, but the capsule stuck to the freezer where it was hidden and ripped open when the waiter went to retrieve it...
Fidel Castro
5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
Jorg Jenatsch
Jorg Jenatsch was a Swiss Protestant pastor turned political leader.
Jorg Jenatsch
In 1621, he took part in the brutal murder of Pompeius von Planta, the head of a rival political party.
Jorg Jenatsch
Planta was found pinned to the floor with an ax, and Jenatsch fled the coutnry to become a soldier and military entrepreneur.
Jorg Jenatsch
Jenatsch later returned to Switzerland and politics, only to meet a grizzly end during raucous Carnival celebrations in 1639.
Jorg Jenatsch
There he was assassinated by a masked gang led by an ax-wielding man in a bear costume - a man who many have been the son of Pompeius von Planta...
Jorg Jenatsch
5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
Operation Wrath of God
Operation Wrath of God was a covert operation directed by Israel's national security agency, Mossad...
Operation Wrath of God
...targeting Palestinian militants allegedly involved in the murder of 11 members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Operation Wrath of God
A major target was Ali Hassan Salameh, an operative of the Black September group believed by Israel to be the mastermind of the Munich attack.
Operation Wrath of God
Mossad engaged in several attempts to assassinate Salameh, including a mistaken murder in Lillehammer, Norway that ended with 6 agents arrested...
Operation Wrath of God
...and an incident in London that saw one agent seduced and killed by a female assassin-for-hire.
Operation Wrath of God
Salameh was finally tracked to Beirut in 1978 and killed by a car bomb placed along a route he frequently traveled...
Operation Wrath of God
5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
Operacion Ogro
Operacion Ogro was a plot by the Basque separatist group ETA to kill the Prime Minister of Spain, Luis Carrero Blanco.
Operacion Ogro
In 1973, an ETA commando unit rented a basement flat in Madrid along the route that Blanco's car would take to mass every week.
Operacion Ogro
Pretending to b student sculptors, the commandos spent 5 months digging a tunnel under the road which was packed with 80kg of explosives.
Operacion Ogro
On 20 December, a commando unit disguised as electricians detonated the explosives as Blanco's car passed over.
Operacion Ogro
The enormous blast threw the car over the top of a five-story building, killing Blanco, his driver, and his bodyguard...
Operacion Ogro
5 Most Unbelievable Assassination Plots
Operation Valkyrie
During World War II, plans to kill Adolf Hitler were drawn up by resistance forces within the German military.
Operation Valkyrie
Known as Operation Valkyrie, the government was to be blamed for the assassination in order to trick the Reserve Army into staging a coup.
Operation Valkyrie
On July 20, 1944, after several aborted attempts, resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg carried a hidden bomb into a meeting with Hitler.
Operation Valkyrie
On July 20, 1944, after several aborted attempts, resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg carried a hidden bomb into a meeting with Hitler.
Operation Valkyrie
Stauffenberg left the meeting to take a call, leaving behind the briefcase which contained 1kg of plastic explosive with a chemical timer.
Operation Valkyrie
The bomb exploded but failed to kill Hitler because it had been pushed behind a table leg, shielding him from the blast.
Operation Valkyrie
The coup was abandoned when soldiers found ou that Hitler survived the blast. Nearly 5,000 conspirators were arrested and executed in the aftermath...
Operation Valkyrie
