From
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum:
In 1975, a US Navy psychologist, Lt. Com. Thomas Narut, revealed that his naval work included establishing how to induce servicemen who may not be naturally inclined to kill, to do so under certain conditions. He referred to these men using the words “hitmen” and “assassin”.
Narut added that convicted murderers as well had been released from military prisons to become assassins. The training of the carefully-selected recruits ranged from dehumanization of the enemy, to acclimating them emotionally through special films showing people being killed and injured in violent ways.
The disclosure by Narut was pure happenstance. We can only speculate about what programs are taking place or being planned today in that five-sided building in Virginia.
Following is a list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
1949 — Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s — CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
1950s — Zhou Enlai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1963 — Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 — Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1950s (mid) — Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 — Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 — Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959 — Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 — Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950-70s — Jose Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 — Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 — Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo
1961 — Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 — Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s — Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts and plots on his life
1960s — Raul Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 — Francisco Caamano, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 — Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 — Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970-1973 — Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 — Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 — General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 — General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 — Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 — Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 — Moammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 — Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 — Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 — Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 — The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate, Nicaragua
1985 — Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader
1991-2000 — Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1998-2000 — Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999-2000 — Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
The CIA: Corporate Instrument of Assassination
“Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world — particularly the Third World — since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.”
— Ralph McGehee
former CIA analyst
CIABASE; The Crisis of Democracy
also author of Deadly Deceits
From
Derailing Democracy: the America the Media Don’t Want You to See
by David McGowan:
“No assassination instruction should ever be written or recorded... The simplest local tools are often the most efficient means of assassination... anything hard, heavy and handy will suffice... The most efficient accident...is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface... Falls before trains and subway cars are usually effective, but require exact timing... assassinations can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it.”
“A Study of Assassination”
CIA training manual
circa 1954
“It is possible to neutralize carefully selected and planned targets, such as court judges, mesta judges, police and state security officials, CDS chiefs, etc. For psychological purposes it is necessary to take extreme precautions... The mission to replace the individual should be followed by extensive explanation within the population affected of the reason why it was necessary for the good of the people.”
“Psychological Operations in Guerilla Warfare”
A Contra-era CIA Training Manual
Related sites
The US Army School of Assassins
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/soa/
Exposes the dirty deeds of the U.S. Army School of “the Americas” (Assassins) throughout Latin America. Special sections on Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Grenada, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
School of the Americas Watch
http://www.soaw.org/index.html
The United States Army “School of the Americas”, in Fort Benning, Georgia, teaches its students how to torture human beings.
Graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas have been responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America.
Among the SOA’s nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia.
Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the torture of countless people throughout Central and South America and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 human beings.
Bibliography
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by Douglas Valentine
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A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
by William Blum
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U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
by William Blum
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Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford
In 1962, U.S. military leaders had a top-secret plan for committing terrorist attacks on Americans in Miami and Washington D.C., while blaming Cuba. Codenamed “Operation Northwoods”, the plan was intended to provide the propaganda necessary to create popular support for an invasion of Cuba.
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The Imperialist War Against Iraq
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American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
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My 25 years in the CIA
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How media monopoly stifles truth
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The Weapons of American State Terrorism
Assassination