Cuba 1959
Fidel Castro purged the first post-revolution Prime Minister José Miró Cardona and President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, assuming power.
On 11 December 1959, Colonel J.C. King of the CIA recommended assassinating Fidel Castro. Specifically, the CIA began to send weapons to guerillas that were against Fidel Castro.
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