Profile
Marita Lorenz
Dictator + Militant
Female
Born
Aug 18, 1939
Age
73
Hometown
Bremen (city)
Marita Lorenz is 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. She later had a child with the Venezuelan former dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. In the… Read More
Romance
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News + Updates
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"Wakacje" W łóżku Potwora Onet.PlGoogle News - Aug 30, 2011
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Niepkuhlen: Die Brücke Hat Viele Freunde Westdeutsche ZeitungGoogle News - Aug 25, 2011
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Tw1 Programmschwerpunkt Am 10. August: "85 Jahre Fidel Castro" Apa Ots (Pressemitteilung)Google News - Aug 09, 2011
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Spielen, Bewegen Und Sich Begegnen Noz Neue Osnabrücker ZeitungGoogle News - Aug 08, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1939
Birth
Born in 1939.
TWENTIES
1959
20 Years Old
In 1959, weeks after the Cuban Revolution, she arrived in Havana with her father on board of the MS Berlin.
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1960
21 Years Old
Back in Cuba in 1960, she did not deliver the pills but told Castro about the plot, claiming that she still loved him.
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1961
22 Years Old
While continuing to work against Castro's Cuba, in 1961 she met the deposed Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez who lived in the US.
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1963
24 Years Old
Then she met him again just before the Kennedy assassination in 1963 in the house of Orlando Bosch, with Frank Sturgis, Pedro Luis Díaz Lanz and two other Cubans present.
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THIRTIES
FIFTIES
1993
54 Years Old
In 1993 she wrote her first autobiography, Marita: One Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Love and Espionage from Castro to Kennedy (ISBN 1560250550), with Ted Schwarz.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2000
61 Years Old
She is the subject of a 2000 German documentary film Lieber Fidel - Maritas Geschichte ("Dear Fidel - Marita's Story").
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2001
62 Years Old
Her second autobiography Lieber Fidel – Mein Leben, meine Liebe, mein Verrat (ISBN 3471780793) appeared in 2001.
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