Kennedy mulled bounty system to kill Cubans that valued Castro at 2 cents

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published October 27, 2017 12:38am ET

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Kennedy mulled bounty system to kill Cubans that valued Castro at 2 cents — The plan was revealed in a document released Thursday by the National Archives, one of several thousand released as part of the files that still remained secret. (AP Photo) | AP

Military leaders in John F. Kennedy’s government proposed a bounty system in 1962 that would pay Cubans to kill or capture Communists on the island and valued Cuban leader Fidel Castro at just 2 cents.

The plan was revealed in a document released Thursday by the National Archives, one of several thousand released as part of the files that still remained secret.

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