Warbird Information Exchange

Sometimes serious things can have a funny side. The big headlines in the papers Wed were about the secret files of past CIA covert domestic activites. Most of it has been rumored in the past, but there was one part I'd never heard of. Our govt wanted the Mafia to asassinate Castro. The crime bosses probaably are patriotic in the bigger sense, and probably figured it could be a good deal for them. Anyway such things as poison pills did not work and one scheme the undercover guys came up with was to get Fidel into a scuba wet suit that had been treated with a depilatory that would make all his hair fall out! I could only think of Robin Williams when I read that.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

That is one interesting scheme right there.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

a can of nair would have been easier. we put some in a kid's jock strap, & nearly got kicked out of summer camp about 35 years ago. now i'm bald as an eagle up top on the melon, paybacks are a b*tch!!!! that govt release is a bunch of kakadoody, i could strain my spaghetti with all the censoring holes!!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Now that's funny right there! However, still not really sure I want (or need) to picture a "streamlined" Fidel!!

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"So there I was, knee deep in a river I couldn't pronounce..."

I remember reading an article in WWII magazine about how the govt. cut a deal with the local Mafia in NJ and NYC to help monitor the docks and keep an eye out for spys early in the war.

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Albert Stix Jr.
"Work is the curse of the drinking class"