By Xinhua
Beijing : The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of U.S. planned to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro in the early 1960s working with some American mobsters, according to documents released by it Tuesday.
   Known inside the CIA as the "family jewels," hundreds of heavily censored documents were released with vast sections blocked out by agency censors. The documents were about CIA's spying on Americans, foreign assassination plots and other misdeeds that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s.
   According to a memo written at the time, the purpose of the dossier was to identify all current and past CIA activities that "conflict with the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947" — and were, in other words, illegal.
   The CIA's efforts to assassinate Castro were documented by the Church Committee in 1975, based on the testimony of the key players, but the documents show that the agency's actions in the early 1960s still have the capacity to shock. "The mission target was Fidel Castro."
   The CIA contacted Johnny Roselli, believed to have been a high-ranking member of the Mafia and the person who controlled all the ice-making machines on the Las Vegas strip.
   On monday, before the document were released, Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused U.S. President George W. Bush of ordering his murder. Castro denounced Bush's relationship with the Cuban American mafia in Miami, which he said has tried to assassinate him for several times.
   There was also plenty in the documents on the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974.