This Day in History: James Bond author Ian Fleming shared a memorable dinner with JFK on this day in 1960. Fleming was a dinner guest at the home of future American President John F. Kennedy, and described to those assembled there some humorous suggestions for how James Bond would get rid of Fidel Castro.
"As one scare tactic, he proposed the CIA fly a huge cross across the Cuban night sky as sort of a Second Coming, a fake divine warning to Catholics about their atheist leader. Fleming also suggested showering Havana with pamphlets claiming that nuclear testing by Fidel's pals in the Soviet Union would bring about radiation poisoning, enough to cause impotence and for bearded men to have their hair fall out." Source
CIA official John Bross, another dinner guest, called agency director Allen Dulles afterward and reported Fleming's "ideas", some of which were tried later.
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