Great piece of cigar history

Source – cigaraficionado.com – John F. Kennedy, famously sent his press secretary Pierre Salinger on a cigar buying spree before signing the Cuba embargo decree—some 1,200 Cuban cigars were purchased for JFK’s private stash of smokes: As the United States and Cuba have attempted to negotiate their differences over the last 50 years, Cuban cigars […]

via SMOKE SCREEN: Cigar Diplomacy, from Castro’s sabotaged CIA cigars to Clinton’s Contraband Cohibas – By Peter Kornbluh and William M. Leogrande (Flashback) — RIELPOLITIK