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TIL of Robert Maheu, an American businessman and lawyer, who worked for the FBI and CIA, and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes. He recruited the mob to assassinate Fidel Castro and his investigative agency was a model for television's Mission Impossible.

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