The CIA has a long history of helping to kill leaders around the world

[Judi Lynn]

US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders, but was forced to cut back after a Senate investigation in the 1970s

Ewen MacAskill
Friday 5 May 2017 11.43 EDT


Some of the most notorious of the CIA’s operations to kill world leaders were those targeting the late Cuban president, Fidel Castro. Attempts ranged from snipers to imaginative plots worthy of spy movie fantasies, such as the famous exploding cigars and a poison-lined scuba-diving suit.

But although the CIA attempts proved fruitless in the case of Castro, the US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders elsewhere around the world – either directly or, more often, using sympathetic local military, locally hired criminals or pliant dissidents.

According to North Korea’s ministry of state security, the CIA has not abandoned its old ways. In a statement on Friday, it accused that the CIA and South Korea’s intelligence service of being behind an alleged recent an assassination attempt on its leader Kim Jong-un.

The attempt, according to the ministry, involved “the use of biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance” and the advantage of this was it “does not require access to the target (as) their lethal results will appear after six or 12 months”.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/cia-long-history-kill-leaders-around-the-world-north-korea

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[tenorly]

1. And other less well-known leaders, such as Ecuador's Roldos and Panama's Torrijos

You may remember these hits were detailed by John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Their crimes? Being economic nationalists who refused to be bribed by U.S. corporate interests (since then, of course, most of those interests have moved their legal addresses to Luxembourg, the Bahamas, Cook Islands, or other decidedly un-American laundromats).

Another victim of the CIA is believed by some historians to be Argentina's populist leader Juan Perón, who died in 1974. His closest adviser during his last years, a fascist former policeman called José López Rega, is widely believed to have been a CIA asset and may have been ordered to poison Perón after it was learned that he had decided to fire López Rega.

Is it true? We'll probably never know. But many in Perón's inner circle - including people who agree on very little else - agree emphatically on that point. We do already know, through declassified documents, that the CIA had come to favor a right-wing military coup shortly before Perón's death in July of that year.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Had never learned about the information on Juan Pern, yet, but it sounds totally likely.

One wonders how long they skulked around, scheming, plotting before the act was set in motion. They must have despised his world-wide image, or that of any other prominent leader who doesn't put US interests before those of his/her own people, and worship at the shrine of materialism, US style.

It's never too late for anyone who hasn't read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Far better to read it now than never at all! Few books give one the chance to start awakening just by reading!