Criminal investigation

REVEALED: How the CIA offered gangsters $150,000 to assassinate Fidel Castro to the horror of Robert Kennedy - but the criminals insisted on doing it for FREE

A resurfaced document described the CIA's $150,000 offer to have Cuban leader Fidel Castro assassinated - but the mob insisted on taking the job for free.

The underworld murder-for-hire contract was detailed in a summary of a May 1962 CIA briefing for then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy. 

By then, the Kennedy White House had launched its unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and several assassination attempts against Castro had failed.

At least two efforts to kill Castro were made with CIA-supplied lethal pills and organized crime-made muscle in early 1961, according to the document.

The document was made public in 1997 and contained in an Associated Press report at that time but has resurfaced along with thousands of never-before-seen documents known as the 'JFK files' which President Trump declassified this week.