Assassination

Assassination  (murder,  statecraft)
The JFK Assassination sparked a wave of killings in the USA as the cabal responsible for his death tried to cover their tracks and consolidate their power base.
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Assassination is the extra-judicial killing of particular people, often indicative of deep politics at work. Illegal under most legal systems, the Western commercially controlled media has recently been introducing a euphemism for this: if carried out by "us" (Western democracies such as the USA) against "them" (demonized bogeymen), the preferred term is "targeted killing", the legality of which goes unquestioned.

Assassination, or "targeted killing" as it is euphemistically called (especially when carried out by drones), has long been a key feature of deep politics. Many intelligence agencies have hit squads tasked with carrying out assassinations in such as a way as to either make the premature deaths appear accidental or at least to maintain their own plausible deniability.

Official Narrative

An essential part of all but the most urgent deep political assassinations in the cover story which is used either to hide the murder (i.e. as a suicide or a fatal accident) or to obscure the true motives and perpetrators. Official investigations regularly declare assassinations to be the work of "lone nuts", while those who question the official narrative are termed "conspiracy theorists".

Where killings have been openly admitted by intelligence agencies or military groups, they are seldom if ever termed as "assassinations" or "murders" by the commercially-controlled media unless carried out by "enemy" nation states. Euphemisms such as "targeted killing" are de rigueur.

Targeted Killing

I am not a "bugsplat"

Until the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, the US government refused to publicly admit it carried out targeted killings. When this was publicly admitted, the BBC did not use the word "assassination", choosing instead to headline their report "US approves killing US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki".

Wikipedia reports that "Targeted killing is the intentional killing – by a government or its agents – of a civilian or 'unlawful combatant' targeted by the government". It gives prominence to the ideas of Georgetown Law Professor Gary Solis, who in his 2010 book entitled "The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War" wrote that "Assassinations and targeted killings are very different acts". The phrase might have been designed to hide the true nature of the fact - many drone strikes are not of known individuals, but so - called "signature strikes", i.e. assassinations of unknown people based ont on their identity but on their behavior, which is perceived (currently probably only by humans, but in the future quite possible by software) as suspicious.

By Nation

Israel

Full article: Israel/Assassination

Israel has openly pursued a policy of "targeted killing" since the inception of the second intifada in September 2000, and has killed hundreds if not thousands since then. This policy has broad support amongst the Israeli population.

US

US President Gerald Ford's Executive Order 11905 banned political assassinations, declaring that "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination." Citing numerous examples, Mark Gorton states that "The criminal forces within the national security state have a long history killing many people for the purposes of hiding the death of one, key, high profile individual." Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333 (December 4, 1981) reiterated that "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination" - a prohibition that in 1998, the Washington Post admitted that the US government was tacitly ignoring.

Dallas Occupy Plot

Full article: Dallas occupy plot

MIT students in 2013 used FOIA to uncover heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI either turned a blind eye to or abetted a plot to assassinate leaders of the Dallas Occupy movement. US District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ordered the FBI to explain why it isn't cooperating with an investigation into the assassination plot. The US Justice Department has declined to comment on the matter.

Operation 40

Full article: Operation 40

The CIA's Operation 40 is a hit squad originally organised out of the JM/WAVE station in Miami. It was constituted mainly of Cubans recruited by Jose Sanjenis Perdomo , with the origin aim of assassinating Fidel Castro. The group reportedly carried out multiple assassinations. Daniel Hopsicker and Mark Gorton have claimed that many members of the group were involved in the JFK Assassination.

Post 9-11 Change

Full article: War On Terror

Three days after 9/11, the US congress gave "Authorization for Use of Military Force" (AUMF) to the US president. This vague legal statue has been stretched to legalize assassination of al-Qaeda purported leaders. People on the target list are considered military enemies of the US, and therefore not subject to earlier legislation. The US has not signed the International Convention against Forced Disappearance. The US government consistently refuses to directly address the legality of military drones. In May 2013 Barack Obama referenced a presidential policy guidance on the matter, but only a 2-page summary has been released - the text itself remains classified.

UK

The UK, historically, has not publicly admitted to use of assassinations, the Chief of the SIS even going so far as to claim that MI6 never carried out assassinations. However, in October 2020, the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill that would legalise assassination (and any other crimes) by UK spooks was introduced in UK parliament. Keir Starmer, UK Leader of the opposition instructed Labour MPs to abstain, but 34 opposed the legislation in the vote, despite which the Bill's reading passed by 313 votes to 98.

The controversial legislation - dubbed the “Spycops” bill - sets out new legal rights for undercover agents to commit crimes to “prevent disorder” or maintain “economic well-being”. But critics including Amnesty International have described the bill as a “licence for government agencies to authorise torture and murder”, as it does not explicitly rule out such crimes.

External links

• Licence to kill: When governments choose to assassinate - BBC 2012

 

Examples

Page name	Date	Cause(s)	Official Story	Description
"Jubilee Plot"				An attempt by Irish nationalist patsies to assassinate Queen Victoria and her Cabinate during her Golden Jubilee thanks giving service at Westminster abbey on 20 June 1887
1930s/Assassinations				The assassinations of the 1930s
1940s/Assassinations				The assassinations of the 1940s
1950s/Assassinations
1960s/Assassinations				The US deep state widely used assassination against its opponents, which lead to the CIA being put under increased scrutiny in the 1970s.
1970s/Assassinations				A list of 25 of people assassinated in the 1970s. Some of these were people who were killed because of their role in the JFK assassination. Many more were due to testify at the House Select Committee on Assassinations, convened because of the widespread use of assassination in the US in the 1960s, in large part to keep a lid on that event and the subsequent assassinations.
1980 Camarate air crash				A covert assassination of Adelino Amaro da Costa, to cover up the October surprise conspiracy.
1980s/Assassinations				The assassinations of the 1980s
1990s/Assassinations				The assassinations of the 1930s
1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash				A helicopter crash incident which killed all on board, including almost all the UK's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash				Plane crash that killed 35, including US Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown. At least one associate of the Clintons, Johnny Chung, did not understand this to be a simple accident, and became afraid for his life.
2000s/Assassinations
2010s/Assassinations				The assassinations of the 2010s
2011 Tucson shooting			Jared Lee Loughner	A "lone nut" killing of Justice John Roll
2014 Ukraine coup/Maidan snipers				A part of the 2014 Ukraine coup.
2020s/Assassinations				The assassinations of the 2020s listed here
9-11			Al-Qaeda "9-11/The 19 Hijackers" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Zacarias Moussaoui Walid bin Attash Mustafa al-Hawsawi Ramzi bin al-Shibh Ammar al-Baluchi	A complex and spectacular set of events in New York and Washington. The US government was quick to blame Al Qaeda, though no evidence of guilt was presented and there is much suspicion about what Al Qaeda really is. In the USA 9-11 assisted the Patriot Act's roll back of civil liberties, the stepping up of domestic surveillance and the financial advancement of the military industrial complex. Abroad 9-11 helped launched wars on Iraq and Afghanistan that had been planned long before.
Assassinations prior to 1930				Assassinations prior to 1930
Assassinations since 1945
Avianca Flight 203			Pablo Escobar
Brighton bombing				IRA bomb against PM Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
COVID-19/Regime change				Many if not all of the most outspoken governments who deviated from the Official COVID-19 story appear to have been targeted by organised efforts to unseat them.
Capital punishment				Legal state killing! Even killing the innocent! Especially in the US!
Colgan Air Flight 3407				A plane crash which killed a prominent 9-11 truther, Beverly Eckert who refused to accept money from the 9-11/Compensation fund and instead pursued justice in the legal system.
Dag Hammarskjöld/Assassination
Dallas occupy plot				A plot to assassinate leaders of Occupy Houston. Although the FBI knew about it, no arrests have been made. Tellingly, although documentary evidence exists, the corporate media has said almost nothing about it.
David Kelly/Assassination				On 17 July 2003, David Kelly allegedly committed suicide by swallowing 29 co-proxamol tablets and cutting to his ulnar artery (wrist) with a blunt pruning knife. He was writing a book exposing high level corruption at the time and had given no indication of depression. An official inquest was commenced but never completed.
Diana Spencer/Premature death				A highly suspicious event.
Donald Trump/Assassination attempt in Pennsylvania			Thomas Crooks	An assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 2024, missing his skull by a few inches.
EgyptAir Flight 990				Unclear plane disaster. The NTSB concluded this was a deliberate act, the ECAA disputed this conclusion.
France/Assassinations since 1945
Gerald Bull/Assassination			Unknown Mossad	The killing of Gerald Bull as he returned home from his nearby office whilst unlocking the door to his Brussels, Belgium appartment.
Irgun
Itavia Flight 870				Suspicious plane crash that was the subject of complex legal action.
JFK/Assassination			Lee Harvey Oswald	The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy was the seminal deep political event of modern times, perhaps even more than 9-11. Both were done by the same group. Subsequently the group assassinated RFK, MLK and many others to try to contain the truth.
Jo Cox/Murder			Thomas Mair
John Lennon/Assassination			Mark David Chapman	“Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.” Jose Sanjenis Perdomo, the assassin who chose the staff of Operation 40, was the doorman of The Dakota hotel, a name not reported by commercially-controlled media at the time of the assassination.
Jovenel Moïse/Assassination			Unknown	The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Kashmir Princess			CIA Taiwan	CIA/KMT assassination attempt on Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on the way to the Bandung Conference.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007			Soviet Union	1983 plane shootdown that killed Larry McDonald, who was interested in investigating the Trilateral Commission.
Lillehammer assassination				In 1973 Mossad assassinated a Moroccan citizen in Lillehammer,Norway.
MLK/Assassination			James Earl Ray	Officially a US-government assisted assassination!
Malcolm X/Assassination				A US Deep State backed assassination
Markovic affair				When a sexual blackmailer was killed in 196, it soon turned out he had pictures of very prominent persons, including future President Georges Pompidou and his wife Claude.
Mykonos restaurant assassinations			Iran	1992 Assassination of Iranian-Kurdish leaders in Berlin. Presumably Iran did it, but a curious warning from Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt hints that there may be more to the incident.
Olof Palme/Assassination			Christer Pettersson Stig Engström	A "lone nut", Christer Pettersson, was blamed but his conviction was overturned. After a document surfaced implicating the Apartheid South Africa in the assassination, in 2020 the Swedish police blamed the assassination on a different, already deceased, "lone nut".
Operation Celeste
Orderud murders
Orlando Letelier/Assassination			DINA
Patrice Lumumba/Assassination				A US Deep state backed assassination, ordered by Allen Dulles, which was followed by decades of bloody violence.
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Assassination victims on Wikispooks

Title	Date	Cause(s)	Official Story	Description
Shinzō Abe				Japanese deep state actor and PM who aggressively re-militarised the country
Jack Agazarian (WWII)				UK spook of the SOE who was captured and killed in WW2.
Jaime Roldós Aguilera				A leader of Ecuador determined to try to better the living conditions of the population. Assassinated by the CIA.
Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan				An assassinated Iranian nuclear weapons specialist
Mohamed Farah Aideed				President of Somalia assassinated in office
Gustavo Alverez				CIA-connected Honduras army commander who led torture/death squads
Giorgio Ambrosoli				An Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona.
John Amery				Brother of politician Julian Amery. A Nazi-sympathiser who was executed for high treason by the UK government.
David Amess				British parliamentarian and COVID-19 dissident who was fatally stabbed in October 2021. He had criticised Big Pharma, the COVID 19/Lockdowns, mandatory face masks, and vaccine passports.
Anis Amri				Supposed perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin attack, termed "Not independently notable" by Wikipedia.
Herbert Amry				Diplomat whistleblower who was killed in Iran/Contra affair
Luca Attanasio				Ambassador assassinated in 2021.
Galip Balkar				Assassinated by Armenians while Turkish Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Stepan Bandera
Guy Banister				A US deep state operative involved in the JFK assassination. Suddenly died after he had attracted the attention of investigator Jim Garrison.
Louis Barthou
Boris Bazarov				Assassinated spook
Lavrenty Beria				Feared minister of Stalin. Executed in 1953 with 6 associates.
Folke Bernadotte				The Zionists killed him in Jerusalem after he wrote a UN report detailing the devastated Palestinian villages and mass killings he saw. Nobody was prosecuted for his assassination.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Homi J. Bhabha				Indian nuclear physicist possibly killed by the CIA in air crash killing 117
Benazir Bhutto				Prime Minister of Pakistan. YGL. Assassinated in 2007.
Eşref Bitlis				Turkish general who was assassinated by deep state as part of the Turkey/1993 Planned Military Coup
Outel Bono				African political leader assassinated by French secret services
Robert Bradford				Northern Irish MP who was assassinated in 1981.
Jean de Broglie				The investigation into his 1976 assassination was soon classified as a military secret.
Klaas Bruinsma				Mysterious Amsterdam drug lord in the 1970s and 1980s. Connected to the Dutch royal family through a princess (and possibly more royalty), spooks and underage-sex trafficking. Assassinated in 1991
William Francis Buckley				CIA Station Chief in Beirut, captured by Hezbollah.
Manuel Buendía
Whitey Bulger				MKULTRA connected US Crime boss assassinated in prison aged 89
Gerald Bull				A Canadian engineer and developer of long-range artillery. Best known for his involvement in the Iraq 'supergun' project.
Mārtiņš Bunkus				Assassinated lawyer who had worked on suspect financial institutions in Riga
Alexander Burnes				UK "spymaster" diplomat
Francisco Caamaño				Dominican soldier and politician who tried to change things. Captured and summarily executed with the assistance of the CIA.
Luigi Calabresi				An Italian policeman who was alleged to have killed a suspect of the Piazza Fontana bombing. Assassinated in 1972, leading to public unrest.
Kiki Camarena				Undercover DEA agent who was abducted, tortured and murdered on assignment in Mexico in 1985
Gary Caradori				An investigator into the Franklin child prostitution ring, killed with his son in a plane crash.
Paul Castellano				"The Howard Hughes of the Mob"
Park Chung-hee				President of South Korea assassinated in office
James Connolly				One of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. Executed by the British.
Sam Cooke				Singer and Civil Rights activist. He was good friends with boxer Muhammad Ali and activist Malcolm X. Shot dead in Los Angeles motel, possibly as part of COINTELPRO.
André Cools				A leading Belgian Socialist is gunned down in 1991. The second political assassination in Belgium’s history.
William Cooper				Announced around 10 weeks before 9/11 that "Whatever they're going to blame on Usama bin Laden - don't you believe it...They will soon do something outlandish to gain the support of the Sheeple".<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> He was killed by the US Marshals Service less than two months after the event.
Henri Curiel				International left wing activist with many enemies, gunned down.
Edward Cutolo				A drug smuggler who named a lot of names about the CIA's drug trafficking, and who then died a sudden death, as did many of those he named.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle				Third generation "our son of a bitch"
Ngo Dinh Diem				The 1st President of South Vietnam, assassinated by the CIA.
Hrant Dink				Assassinated journalist
Silme Domingo				Assassinated labor activist, probably killed on orders of Ferdinand Marcos
Denis Donaldson				Sinn Féin member exposed in December 2005 as an MI5 employee. Assassinated in 2006.
Darya Dugina				Russian journalist and political activist who was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow on 20 August 2022
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Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Lone nut"	“Nor, for example, is there any reason to interpret the 'lone assassin' verdict, which emerged immediately after the assassination as itself an indicator of the conspiracy at work. On the perspective I am suggesting, almost before Kennedy's heart stopped beating the one thing which everyone involved would have agreed upon, without discussion, never mind coercion, was that a 'lone nut' verdict had to emerge. The 'truth' was not an issue: in politics the 'truth' is simply a tool.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The point about the 'lone nut' is that it was then, and remains (cf Hinckley) the only safe explanation for political assassination within America. 'Disney America'<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>, the fantasy pluralist democracy described in the textbooks on the American political system, cannot accommodate planned political assassination.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a>”	Robin Ramsay	1983
Meir Dagan	“In my opinion, no terrorist should feel immune, anywhere. I think that a person's life is forfeit the moment he decides to adopt terrorist tactics.”	Meir Dagan	1998
Rodrigo Duterte	“Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch. Freedom of expression cannot help you if you have done something wrong...The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person.”	Rodrigo Duterte Wikiquote	2016
Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations	“We live in a world where assassination has become an unspeakable, nationally approved art to frustrate fundamental change.”	James Douglass
Far West	“There are two kinds of businesses: those which flourish from peace and the strengthening of law and those which require the opposite - zones of incessant chaos like Chechnya Colombia Afghanistan where drugs can be grown or trafficked under the watch of PMCs.”	Peter Dale Scott	26 February 2006
Barnaby Jack	“It does make me wonder, if he was killed, that the CIA and other Government agencies don't want this flaw to be solved. After all, it would make an excellent tool to bump [off] 'dangerous' people who have pacemakers."”	Reddit Barnaby Jack	2013

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Beyond Conspiracy Theory	paper	February 2010	Lance deHaven-Smith	The article posits a new framework for the analysis of Deep political events and Conspiracy Theories. The term SCAD (State crime against democracy) is explained and developed as a way of connecting the dots across multiple suspect events.
Document:Group 13	article	1999	David Guyatt	Does the British Government have a deniable assassination squad? An exploration of evidence that it does.
Document:Off the Leash: How the UK is developing the technology to build armed autonomous drones	Article	10 November 2018	Peter Burt	The United Kingdom should make an unequivocal statement that it is unacceptable for machines to control, determine, or decide upon the application of force in armed conflict and give a binding political commitment that the UK would never use fully autonomous weapon systems
Document:Torture, Assassination and the American Way of Life	commentary	17 February 2012	Jacob G. Hornberger
File:A.HRC.14.24.Add6.pdf	report	28 May 2010		The UN Special Rapporteur reports on "targeted killings" by states.
File:Living under drones.pdf	paper	September 2012	International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic

 

Convicted of Assassination

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Manuel Contreras	4 May 1929	7 August 2015	Chile	Spook	Chilean spymaster.

Rating

30 November 2018 Robin  Mostly, a long list.
Dozens of examples of both overt and covert assassinations, many by deep state groups.

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