 In 1961, the CIA arranged a trip to the U.S. for further leukemia treatment at a National Institutes of Health facility.During his time in the United States, Fanon was handled by CIA agent Oliver Iselin.Fanon died in Bethesda, Maryland, on 6 December 1961, under the name of "Ibrahim Fanon", a Libyan "nom de guerre" that he had assumed in order to enter a hospital in Rome after being wounded in Morocco during a mission for the Algerian National Liberation Front.