Many assassination ideas were floated by the CIA during Operation Mongoose.[56] The most infamous was the CIA's alleged plot to capitalize on Castro's well-known love of cigars by slipping into his supply a very real and lethal "exploding cigar."[60][61][62][63][64] While numerous sources state the exploding cigar plot as fact, at least one source asserts it to be simply a myth,[65] and another dismisses it as mere supermarket tabloid fodder.[66] Another suggests that the story does have its origins in the CIA, but that it was never seriously proposed by them as a plot. Rather, the plot was made up by the CIA as an intentionally "silly" idea to feed to those questioning them about their plans for Castro, in order to deflect scrutiny from more serious areas of inquiry.[67]