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Cuba charges the U.S. with launching a biological attack on Cuba.

1997

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Cuba accuses the U.S. of releasing a plant pathogen in Cuba as an act of biological warfare. Although this claim will never be proven: "the USA did indeed look into biological agents to kill Fidel Castro and Frederik Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Frischknecht, 2003).