Marita Lorenz
German spy and lover of Fidel Castro (1939–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ilona Marita Lorenz (18 August 1939 – 31 August 2019) was a German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro's life.
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Born | (1939-08-18)18 August 1939 |
Died | 31 August 2019(2019-08-31) (aged 80)[1] Oberhausen, Germany |
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In the 1970s and 1980s, she testified about the John F. Kennedy assassination, stating that she was involved with a group of anti-Cuban militants, including Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt of CIA and Watergate infamy, shortly before the assassination.