Yeah and to add to this, imagine that the exploding cigars had worked - we would have been hearing “lol commies so stupid died from an exploding cigar what a chump” for decades now from the most insufferable people on earth, it would have been a huge propaganda win beyond just killing Castro. So yeah if I was in charge of the CIA, fuck it why not give it a shot?
Yeah and to add to this, imagine that the exploding cigars had worked - we would have been hearing “lol commies so stupid died from an exploding cigar what a chump” for decades now from the most insufferable people on earth, it would have been a huge propaganda win beyond just killing Castro. So yeah if I was in charge of the CIA, fuck it why not give it a shot?
“Smoke my cigar” would become the new “ride my helicopter” for reactionaries.