Paramount Plus' New Series Mafia Spies: A Look Back At The CIA And Organized Crime's Attempted Assassination Of Fidel Castro

I’ve watched the first couple of episodes of Paramount Plus’ new streaming series, Mafia Spies. 

The docudrama series covers the CIA and Cosa Nostra’s attempts to assassinate Cuban Communist Dictator Fidel Castro. Based on Thomas Maier's book, the look back at the nexus of gangsters, entertainers, politicians and CIA officers who conspired and failed to assassinate Castro is most interesting.

With talking head commentators and acting reenactments, the series is well done. 

I have a few complaints though. Most of the commentators are anti-CIA in general and although Cuban president Batista is called an evil dictator, murderer and torturer often, no such terms are leveled at Fidel Castro, even though Castro was a far more evil dictator and put many more people to death than Batista.

I covered the book in my Washington Times On Crime column. 

You can read the column via the below link:

Paul Davis On Crime: My Washington Times Review of 'Mafia Spies: The Inside Story Of The CIA, Gangsters, JFK, And Castro'