The Cohiba that remained in the agency's permanent repository was a matter of some pride for the doctor. They were never delivered, and all but one were destroyed in 1963. In 1961, Gunn had prepared a box of 50 poisoned cigars, meant to land on Castro's desk in Havana. Gunn's career defied the Hippocratic pledge: "First, do no harm." At the dirty tricks division, according to Earman's report, Gunn was Dr. Edward Gunn, chief of medical services of the CIA's operations division. Earman's little-noticed 1967 report was finally made public in 1998. The Cohiba was uncovered after CIA Director Richard Helms ordered Earman to get the truth behind rumors in the press of the assassination attempts. The revolutionary turned communist survived White House enmity for half a century. Kennedy, the CIA devised numerous plots to kill Castro. "Merely putting one in the mouth would do the job," John Earman, an inspector general of the CIA, wrote in 1967. It's a Cohiba, the cigar favored by the Cuban leader, dusted with one of the world's most lethal poisons - botulin toxin. There is a safe somewhere in the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, that very likely contains a sort of tribute to Fidel Castro.
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