| One urban legend tells it like this: There was a man who flew for a CIA airline in the 1960s in South-east Asia. One day an agent working paramilitary ops in the region for the CIA threw a box into the plane, and told the pilot to deliver it to "Landry in Udorn." While flying, a noxious odor began seeping through the box, getting so overwhelming that the pilot opened the box, and found a fresh human head. It was a "joke," to see how "Landry in Udorn" would handle getting a head on his desk. "CIA paramilitary operations were and are being carried out by people, like this agent, who have gone beyond the pale of civilized behavior. There are hundreds of these people now working in the Third World. This fact is not a disgrace, it is a clear and present danger," reports the Civil Intelligence Association Defense Oversight Group. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Libya accused the CIA and Israel's Mossad (September 5, 2000) of assisting in the assassination of its envoy to the Central African Republic. Al-Sanussi Abdullah Awad was shot outside of his home in the capital Banjui, on August 29, 2000. "CIA and Mossad are guilty of masterminding that criminal and cowardly act," was the first official reaction by the Libyan government's African Unity Ministry, quoted by the Independent Online news-service. Libya says it is a US/Israeli attempt to sour relations between the two African countries. This wouldn't be the first time assassination was used by and for either of these covert organizations. Yugoslavia is another country that recently accused the CIA of involvement in assassinations of various political and social figures. There have been a number of vicious murders committed in Yugoslavia and Kosovo in 1999, with US military forces being accused by UN police of covering up for Ramush Haradinaj, a Kosovar politician implicated in drug running and murder in Kosovo. Murder for political gain is a time-honored pastime for the US intelligence and military agencies, so covering up for a fellow murderer comes naturally for them. During the Vietnam war there was the CIA's horrific Phoenix Program, estimated to have assassinated anywhere from 20,000 to 80,000 men, women and children, trying to destroy the South Viet Cong infrastructure. The Church Committee in 1975 uncovered many instances whereby the CIA had either planned an assassination, or backed one, doing away with such luminaries as president Patrice Lumumba, (Congo) president Salvador Allende (Chile) Che Guevara, president Rafael Trujillo, (Dominican Republic) and many attempts on president Fidel Castro. In the case of Lumumba, US President Eisenhower had ordered his assassination, but according to the CIA, Lumumba's domestic enemies got to him before the CIA's hit-men could kill him. William Blum lists 42 successful and not-so-successful assassinations by the CIA and other US agencies in his outstanding expose Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995). In one US assassination attempt, on Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadallah, a Lebanese Shiite leader, eighty people were killed. While there is no denying that the CIA has had a hand in many more than just these assassinations, there are many attempts that failed outright. Cuban President Castro is a good case in point: bullets, botulism, exploding cigars and seashells - nothing affected the feisty Cuban. While drug users are locked up daily around the world, the US intelligence agencies, and others too, have planned and perpetrated murder, for political considerations. Are we fighting the wrong war? Who is really our enemy, opposed to democracy, freedom and the purported American Way? |
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CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents
Here are the documents that the CIA drew up in 1954, targeting "leftists," commies, and anyone else that irritated them, or the ruling junta. While these are documents dating to the mid-1950s, the CIA and the US supported the Guatemalan death squads for nearly forty years, knowing the murders were occurring. All to stop communism. So, which is better, murder, or communism? These sadistic asses obviously believed it was "better dead than red."
An Introduction to the Assassination Business
This is an essay by L. Fletcher Prouty, the man Oliver Stone based his character X (Donald Sutherland) on in his film JFK (1991). Here Prouty writes about the profitable and common practice of the CIA and other intelligence types to use assassination to further their aims and goals.
The Select Committee on Assassinations, The Intelligence Community, and the News Media
This is Chapter 15 of The Taking of America 1-2-3 (3rd ed., 1985), by Richard E. Sprague, a classic in the CIA assassinations field. Sprague also examines the CIA's possible role in covering up JFK's assassination. While some of it seems a bit fantastic at times, Sprague's book is well worth the read.
German Submarines in South Atlantic
This essay details the post-World War II use of Nazi scientists recovered by America's Project Paperclip. This might not seem like it has anything to do with CIA assassinations, but it does. Colonel Boris Pash lead the Alsos team in snatching Nazi atomic supplies and scientists, and was security chief of the Manhattan Project. Pash was also in charge of planning some CIA assassinations after the war (Project Bloodstone).
Playing God with the 40 Committee
"Assassinations are not made by the 40 Committee, they are permitted," says Colonel Fletcher Prouty in this 1977 article on the 40 Committee, a group that singled out foreign leaders for termination. Throughout the Cold War, 'they' "permitted" an untold number of tortures and assassinations of world leaders. While it is now against US law for the CIA to undertake assassinations, it is not necessarily against the law for them to still "permit" them to take place. This article opens with the death of Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator alleged to have been assassinated by CIA-backed or supported killers, within months of the failed CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion.
Top Secret: How to Kill: The CIA's Secret Weapons Systems
This is a Gallery Magazine article (June 1978) by Andrew Stark. During the late 1970s, about the time of the Congressional investigations into the King and Kennedy assassinations, there was a brief flurry of articles by Colonel. Fletcher Prouty, Richard E. Sprague, Stark and others, detailing the CIA's dark side. A hidden history of the assassinations and criminal behavior of the Cult of Intelligence (Victor Marchetti). Mainstream papers had stopped accepting submissions by these writers, leaving them no alternative but to publish where they could ("men's magazines"), which unfortunately served to discredit the articles. They became easy targets of Lone Gunman theory proponents. Too bad, as most of these articles were great.
How All the News about Political Assassinations in the United States Has not Been Fit to Print in The New York Times
This Realist article (October 1972), by Jerry Policoff, takes the New York Times to task for denigrating any other theory or contrary evidence to the accepted Lone Gunman explanation of JFK's assassination. Policoff examines how the New York Times seemed to be willing to portray their preferred version of history, rather than that which the evidence presented.
Che Guavera: Revolutionary Hero to the World's Working People
A sympathetic history, by Gloria La Riva and Richard Becker, of Che Guevara's fight to help liberate the world's oppressed from capitalist tyranny and oppression. Guevera fought in the Congo, with one hundred other Cuban revolutionaries, where the Congolese President, Patrice Lumumba, was himself possibly assassinated by CIA cohorts, according to many researchers. An alternate theory is that Lumumba was killed at the direction of Felix Rodriguez, an anti-Castro Cuban CIA assassin, and friend of George Herbert Bush.
The US and the Overthrow of Sukarno,1965-1967
Peter Dale Scott outlines the US involvement in the overthrow of Indonesia's President Sukarno. The CIA backed the resulting bloodbath.
CIA Study of Assassination
This is taken from the CIA documents related to the 1954 takeover of Guatemala by CIA-backed forces.
The Umbrella System: Prelude to an Assassination
This article (June 1978), by Richard E. Sprague and Robert Cutler, details the system used to deliver paralyzing, or killing flechettes by umbrella. While this is one of those arguments that might make you sigh in exasperation upon first hearing it, after reading this well researched and presented article, it is hard not to wonder. I'd put almost nothing past the CIA and its assorted criminal-minded cronies. Lots of great photos here. This is the story of the "Umbrella Man," an individual who was filmed in Dealy Plaza holding an open umbrella during a nice, cool sunny day (November 22, 1963). He acted in a quite suspicious manner after the shots faded away, calmly sitting down on a curb next to an apparent stranger, while the rest of the people in Dealy Plaza began running about in headless chicken fashion. Then the "Umbrella Man" gets back up a minute later, and calmly walks out of the story. This report presents a very interesting thesis.
The CIA Making Heads Roll
This is an excerpt from William Blum's Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Intervention Since World War II (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995). An incredibly chilling run-down of both failed and successful CIA assassinations, this list should make any American think twice about assigning the CIA any more. It's time that we frankly admit America really doesn't care about democratic ideals, freedoms and the rule of law.
No License to Kill
This New York Newsday article (October 22, 1989), by David Wise, was entered into the Congressional Record on January 23, 1990. An illuminating piece, featuring information on CIA plans for death and destruction, using nefarious devices and substances.
Civil Intelligence Association Defense Oversight Group: Results of the Church Committee and the Iran-Contra Hearings
This dissertation, which I cannot find a date for, sheds light on CIA global operations, involving assassinations, propaganda, paramilitary ops and other ways to subvert foreign nations. The report focuses on the 1980s Iran-Contra hearings of the 1980s, and the early 1970s Church Committee Hearings on Covert Actions.
Inside the Department of Dirty Tricks
This Atlantic Monthly article (August 1979), by Thomas Powers, explores how the CIA's diry secrets become public knowledge.
The Old Man and the CIA: A Kennedy Plot to Kill Castro?
This Nation article by David Corn and Guy Russo (March 26, 2001) discusses Robert Kennedy's desire to use Ernest Hemingway's home outside Havana, Cuba to assassinate Castro. Long denied by friends, co-workers, and
family, it appears that Robert, and even perhaps John, knew about and
sanctioned the plots to kill Castro, and that the CIA operatives involved
were anything but "rouge" agents.
CIA Files Released on Pinochet
Links to Augusto Pinochet and Chile-related topics at the Guardian newspaper's site. Worth visiting if you still doubt Pinochet was a CIA-backed killer.
US Covered Up for Kosovar Ally
This Guardian article (September 10, 2000), by Nick Wood, reveals that Rep. Benjamin Gilman, a rabid American War on Some Drugs crusader, is now feting a murderous drug trafficking Mafiosi/politician, Ramush Haradinaj, in Washington DC. Gilman is helping Ramush, as his pals and terrorized underlings know him, to raise yet more money for his drug trafficking compatriots in Kosovo, formerly known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Drug trafficking thugs in other loosely paraphrased US government descriptions. What is going on here?
George Bush Sr. and a Chilean Assassin
This Consortium News article (September 23, 2000), by Robert Parry (who broke many of the Iran Contra-guns-for-drugs stories back in the 1980s), reports on the latest CIA admission that it helped cover-up Chile's involvement in the assassination of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende.
Paranoia Claims After Mbeki Tells of CIA Plot
South African President Thabo Mbeki, as reported in this Telegraph (October 7, 2000) newspaper article, by Tim Butcher, is said to be "paranoid" after portions of a recent speech was leaked to the press, in which he alleged that not only is AIDS not directly related to HIV, but that it results from poverty. Mbeki is scared that "the CIA, Western governments, and drug firms are conspiring against him."
Is CIA Behind Yugoslav Assassinations?
This Workers World News Service article (February 24, 2000) by Bill Wayland postulates the possibility that the CIA has been actively working to exterminate Yugoslavian strongmen and political figures.
Target: Patrice Lumumba
Here is a summary of operations against Patrice Lumumba carried out by the CIA.
Pinochet May Have Had CIA Go-Ahead to Kill Two Americans, Documents Show
This Guardian newspaper report (February 14, 2000) discusses how Augusto Pinochet may have had CIA permission after they supported his coup d'etat, to assassinate two troublesome Americans living and working in Chile.
Libya Accuses CIA and Mossad of Killing Envoy
This Independent Online article (September 5, 2000) briefly reports on Libya's assertion that the CIA and Mossad planned the execution of its envoy to the Central African Republic. He was shot outside of his residence on August 29th, 2000.
Libya Accuses CIA, Mossad Over Killing
This short BBC report (September 5, 2000) discusses Libya's accusations that the CIA and Mossad killed the ambassador to the Central African Republic in the capital, Banjui.
Castro on US Relations, and CIA Assassinations Plans
This 1975 transcript of a conversation with Fidel Castro shows his apparent disregard for the CIA, having no fear from their bumbling efforts to off him over the years. As he points out, he and Cuba both survive. He visited New York City for the Millennium UN Summit, and had his picture taken shaking the hand of former president Bill Clinton. Castro will still be in command of his country, outlasting nine separate US administrations and presidents, despite, or perhaps due to the CIA bumbling its hits on him. Go Castro.
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