The CIA used the mob to attempt the assassination of Fidel Castro, but the move was a strategic failure that later complicated law enforcement actions due to the exposure of agency operations.

“it was to kill Castro to use the mob to kill Castro and they hired him they hired these these people to do it and they said to themselves this is great and so they started doing stuff and they got busted and arrested and then Bobby Kennedy had to step in and and say you can't prosecute”

The CIA used Abstract Expressionism as a soft power propaganda tool during the Cold War to contrast American cultural freedom with Soviet realism.

“The CIA wanted to counter kind of like, you know, Soviet realism with an art form that would appeal to these people and they looked at abstract impressionism expressionism like, you know, what Jackson Pollock was doing.”