{"id":197292,"date":"2019-11-03T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197292"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:35:13","slug":"the-cias-greatest-hits-us-government-assassinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197292","title":{"rendered":"The CIA\u2019s Greatest Hits \u2013 US Government Assassinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Larry Romanoff \u2013 Global Research Nov 1, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CIA-symbol.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-148125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CIA-symbol.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CIA-symbol.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CIA-symbol-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CIA-symbol-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>In practice, the US has on occasion encountered difficulty in its Imperial progress, most often due to country leaders proving resistant to American colonisation. In such cases, if payments of cash and the promise of free weapons fail to turn a patriot into a traitor, the obstacle must unfortunately be eliminated. Following is a list of prominent foreign individuals whom the US assassinated or, in a few instances, tried to kill and failed, including three attempts on the life of China\u2019s <\/em><strong><em>Premier Zhou En-lai<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The list does not include assassinations the US subcontracted to Israel\u2019s Mossad or to other groups, and also does not include a long list of more than 100 lesser figures whom the CIA has routinely eliminated throughout South and Central America, Asia and Africa. Only two nations in the world have ever had an official policy of state-sponsored assassinations, and they still have them today \u2013 the US and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official CIA Assassination Manual, released to the public under a court order, contained detailed instructions on the methods of elimination of political obstacles. Here is one such example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cFor secret assassinations\u2026the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated. The most effective accident .. is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. The act may be executed by sudden, vigorous grabbing of the ankles, tipping the subject over the edge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The following is adapted in part from a list prepared by <strong>William Blum<\/strong> for his book \u201cKilling Hope\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1949 \u2013 Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1950 \u2013 Zhou En-lai, Prime Minister of China (3 attempts)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1950 \u2013 Sukarno, President of Indonesia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1950 \u2013 Claro Recto, Philippines opposition leader<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1950 \u2013 Jose Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1951 \u2013 Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1953 \u2013 Zhou En-lai, Prime Minister of China<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1953 \u2013 Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1955 \u2013 Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1955 \u2013 Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1955 \u2013 Jose Figueres, President of Costa Rica<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1957 \u2013 Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1959 \u2013 Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1960 \u2013 Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1960 \u2013 Fidel Castro, President of Cuba (638 attempts)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1960 \u2013 Raul Castro, high official in government of Cuba<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1961 \u2013 Francois \u201cPapa Doc\u201d Duvalier, leader of Haiti<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1961 \u2013 Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld, Secretary-General of the United Nations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1961 \u2013 Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1961 \u2013 Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1962 \u2013 Sukarno, President of Indonesia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1963 \u2013 Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1963 \u2013 Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1965 \u2013 Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1965 \u2013 Francisco Caamanao, Dominican Republic opposition leader<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1965 \u2013 Charles de Gaulle, President of France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1967 \u2013 Che Guevara, Cuban leader<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1969 \u2013 Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1970 \u2013 Salvador Allende, President of Chile<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1970 \u2013 Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1970 \u2013 General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1972 \u2013 General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1973 \u2013 Jose Figueres, President of Costa Rica<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1975 \u2013 Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1975 \u2013 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1976 \u2013 Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1979 \u2013 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Leader of Pakistan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1980 \u2013 Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several attempts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1981 \u2013 Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1981 \u2013 General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1982 \u2013 Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1983 \u2013 Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1983 \u2013 Miguel d\u2019Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1984 \u2013 The nine comandantes of the Nicaraguan Government \u2013 the Sandinista National Directorate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1985 \u2013 Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1986 \u2013 Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several attempts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1988 \u2013 General Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq, Military Leader of Pakistan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1991 \u2013 Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1993 \u2013 Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1998 \u2013 Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1999 \u2013 Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">1999 \u2013 Mullah Mohammad Omar, in Kandhar, Afghanistan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">2001 \u2013 Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">2002 \u2013 Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">2003 \u2013 Saddam Hussein and his two sons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">2011 \u2013 Moammar Ghaddafi, his cabinet members and his family<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the topic of <strong>Dag Hammarskjold<\/strong>, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, in early 2015 news reports revealed that Sweden had formally asked the UN to reopen the investigation into the man\u2019s death, and with a specific request to all UN nations to release all documents in their possession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A New York Times article noted that this event had been \u201can open wound\u201d in Sweden for more than 50 years and that the nation would like some closure. The same article noted what it called \u201cpersuasive evidence\u201d that Hammarskjold\u2019s aircraft had been attacked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Many questions were raised at the time about the unusual delay to inspect the wreckage. Although the plane crashed only a few kilometers from the airport, local authorities refused to approach the wreckage until the following morning. It also made references to the involvement of lucrative commercial concessions as well as the NSA\u2019s refusing to release its documents on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the death of Pakistan\u2019s leader <strong>Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq,<\/strong> the CIA doesn\u2019t mind sacrificing its own on occasion. Zia Ul-Haq and many of his most senior staff were on a US military C-130 transport along with the US Ambassador to Pakistan, <strong>Arnie Raphel<\/strong>, when the plane crashed and exploded shortly after take-off. The cause of the crash was never publicly stated but media reports claimed the US sent a team of investigators to assist the Pakistanis but that the two sides reached \u201csharply different conclusions\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/cia-us-government-assassinations\/5693720\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the official CIA Assassination Manual: \u201cthe contrived accident is the most effective technique \u2026 Elevator shafts, stair wells \u2026and bridges will serve\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":148125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197294,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197292\/revisions\/197294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}