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If you find a copy of the full report (surprisingly hard to find a complete copy) you can really tell when they started messing around with the psychedelics.
After the first few (when they tried just, you know, shooting him) he didn’t so much “survive” the attempts as “sit back and watch the clown show”. The sea-mine oyster bed, making his beard fall out and the several variations on poisoned cigars are the most famous ones, but there was so much loony-tunes bullshit they tried. My favorite has always been the attempt to drop a grenade on him from a kite which was thwarted when it charlie-browned into a tree, but the plan to ship an assassin into his house nailed up in a crate is a close second (I don’t know if they ever actually went ahead with that one, but they talked about it a bunch).