That’s why they killed him
New WaPo just dropped: CIA secrets and exposed agents: See unredacted details from the JFK files
CIA contaminated 800 bags of sugar in clandestine operation
Date: Aug. 29, 1962 | Agency: CIA
In a covert operation, the CIA contaminated 800 bags of raw sugar on a cargo ship traveling from Cuba to the Soviet Union, a newly unredacted portion of this document says. The contaminate was a “chemical used in the process of denaturing alcohol,” the CIA wrote, adding that it would make the entire sugar shipment – 80,000 bags – unfit for consumption when it was refined in the Soviet Union. According to the document, the contaminate was not dangerous but was “so strong to the taste that it ruins the taste of the consumer for any food or drink for a considerable time.”
JFK died in 1963
oops got the title wrong, the NYT article about it was from 1965, but at the time it did not mention CIA involvement
