Coordination (OPC). Program Branch 7 of OPC and OPC were
incorporated into the CIA. PB-7's job was "the assassination of
suspected double agents and similar low-ranking officials."
Pres. Eisenhower authorized the first CIA assassination of Chou En-
Lai in April 1955. Freelancers employed by the CIA, blew up an Air
India plane in an attempt to murder Chou En-lai, but because he had
switched to another flight he wasn't killed. (unknown date of this
airplane crash). (p. 194) A second try to kill Chou En-lai was
called off in the nick of time to prevent embarrassment to
Eisenhower.
In 1957, Allen Dulles approved a plan to kill Egypian leader Gamel
Abdel Nasser. The murder operation failed.
In 1959, CIA director Allen Dulles and Richard Bissell, Deputy
Director for Plans (translated: covert operations) organized Task
Force "W" and put William Harvey in charge of it.
The first mission of Task Force "W" was to set up the new CIA staion
in Miami to recruit anti-Castro Cuban refugees and to provide
intelligence and manpower to the military planners of the Bay of
Pigs invasion planned for spring of 1961. Others in the CIA were
tasked to train a brigade of recruits (a Bde amounts to about 1,200
to 1,500 people). The second mission tasked to Harvey was to head-
up a special unit code-named, ZR/RIFLE (later referred to as KUBARK,
In all documents or oral communications, in "executive action"
files. The ZR/RIFLE operation provided the CIA an assassination
capablity. (p. 191-193).
In 1959, the Eisenhower Administration ordered ,Patrice Lumumba, the
Congolese rebel leader to become the first target of ZR/RIFLE (a
dangerous Marxist leader in Eisenhower's mind). The assassination
efforts by two Corsican hit men hired by Harvey, failed. Lumumba as
killed on February 12, 1961, by opposing rebels with CIA assistance.
James Angelton instructed Harvey never to recruit Sicilians, for
fear the CIA could be blackmailed by the Mafia. He recommended to
Harvey using Corsicians instead. Angelton was the boss of CIA's
counter-espionage department, which means... catching spies trying
to penetrate the CIA. Angelton also proposed tasking "executive
actions" to friendly foreign intelligence services and recommended
using South Koreans. (p. 196)
Note: I think this was because the (French) Corsician mafia was
helped by the OSS in their drug trafficking during world war II.
William Harvey know from the time that Task Force W was formed that
Castro's assassination was likely also needed in conjunction with an
invasion. Between the summer of 1959 and March 1960, Eisenhower's
White House Special Group, a panel of National Security executives
approved the order to kill Castro. Eisenhower later stressed that he
wanted Castro killed before the November 1960 Kennedy/Nixon
election.
Sheffield Edwards, the CIA's Director of Security suggested that the
Agency get the Mafia murder Castro. Edwards was a long time friend
of Harvey. Harvey made the mistake in believing Edwards when
Edwards described the (US) Mafia as a monolithic, unified force.
(meaning that there were no turf battles between mafia gansters).
Richard Bissell gave the go ahead to use the (US) mafia.
NOTE: The Office of Security was thus heavily implicated in the
CIA's illegal domestic operations, including cointelpro operations
against political dissidents and groups. The Office of Security
also utilized male and female prostitutes and other sex operatives
for purposes of compromising and blackmailing public figures,
information gathering, and control. According to (author Jim)
Hougan, the Office of Security maintained a "fag file" of some
300,000 US citizens, with heavy stress on homosexuals. The Office of
Security also had responsibility for Soviet and other defectors, and
the physical security of all CIA premises in the US.
Edwards selected Robert Maheu, a former colleague of Harvey's at the
FBI. Harvey formerly worked for the FBI. Prior to being selected
for this job, Maheu was hired by the CIA. The CIA had him set up a
front company, a private investigations firm to be used on
operations that could have embarrassing repercussions for the
Agency. For this mission of involving the mafia, Maheu's CIA case
officer was James O'Connell.
Maheu and O'Connell met with Johnny Roselli. They asked Roselli
what it would be worth Meyer Lansky to have Castro dead. Roselli set
up a second meeting with Santos Trafficante, Sam Giancana and Maheu
and O'Connell.
Harvey did not know that Castro already had a relationship with
Trafficante. Castro had already made a deal with Trafficante which
would benefit Trafficante in a power move against Meyer Lansky. In
the years of guerrilla warfare against Batista, Castro received guns
from Trafficante. In return, Castro promised Trafficante control of
gambling in Cuba once the revolution succeeded. Trafficante also
allowed Castro's supporters to bring heroin into Miami and sell it
on his turf (Florida) to help finance the revolution.
Trafficante had been placing Castro agents (spies) among the
refugees fleeing Cuba after the revolution. Most Cuban-Americans
never realized that some of the most fervent anti-communist emigre
organizations were controlled by Castro's DGI, the Cuban
intelligence agency. Thru this DGI intelligence effort, Castro was
able to prevent his assassination. (p. 197-202)
Source: The Secret History of the CIA, by Joseph J. Trento, 2005.
On October 24, 1967, the Soviet newspaper Pravda announced the
defection of an American, John Discoe Smith. In his memoirs,
entitled "I Was an Agent of the CIA," published in Literaturnaya
Gazeta that year, Smith detailed his adventures as an agent --
including his delivery of a time bomb to a Chinese Nationalist
agent. He says that in 1955, Jack Curran, a CIA officer attached to
the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, asked him to deliver a bag to a Wang
Feng at the Maidens Hotel in the Indian capital. Smith claimed it
was a bomb, the one used to destroy the Air-India plane. John
Discoe Smith, was employed at the US Embassy in India from 1954 to
1959.
Eleven years later, a U.S. Senate committee investigating CIA
operations heard testimony that gave murky details of a CIA plot to
assassinate an "East Asian leader" attending a 1955 Asian
conference. The leader's identity remained under wraps for another
11 years. In 1977, William Corson, a retired U.S. Marine Corps
intelligence officer who served in Asia, published "Armies of
Ignorance," identifying him as Zhou Enlai.
Corson told the Review that Gen. Lucian Truscott had brought the
operation to a halt. Soon after his appointment as the CIA's deputy
director in 1954, Truscott discovered that the CIA was planning to
assassinate Zhou. During the final banquet in Bandung, a CIA agent
would slip a poison into Zhou's rice bowl that would not take effect
for 48 hours, allowing for Zhou's return to China. According to
Corson, Truscott confronted CIA Director Allen Dulles, forcing him
to terminate the operation.
As a result of the Air India plane crash,16 passengers and crew
members died, including seven Chinese cadres, mainly journalists,
and three journalists from Austria, Poland and North Vietnam. The
flight engineer, navigator and first officer escaped.
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5. The CIA unsuccessfully tried to kill Costa Rican President Jose
Figueres twice from 1955 to 1970. Figueres boasted that he worked
with the CIA very often, especially in the overthrow of Dominican
Republic President Rafael Trujillo.
4. The CIA and the opposition forces of the Khmer Serei attempted to
assassinate Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia in 1959. The assassin was
spotted in a crowd minutes before he was planning to take Sihanouk's
life.
7. As early as 1958, the then-CIA Chief of Station in the Dominican
Republic, Lear Reed, along with several Dominicans, had plotted the
assassination of Rafael Trujillo, which never came to fruition. The
CIA armed several opponents of his regime for assassination
attempts, which also were never carried out.
11. The CIA was directly involved in a failed plot to assassinate
Jamaican President Michael Manley in 1976.
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U. S. Government Assassination Plots: Following is a list of
prominent foreign leaders whose assassination (or planning for same)
the United States has been involved in since the end of Second World
War. The list does not include several assassinations in various
parts of the world carried out by anti-Castro Cubans employed by CIA
and headquartered in the United States: List A: Non-Muslims:
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1949 - Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader,
1950's – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of numerous political figures in West
Germany
1955 – Jose' Antonio Remon, President of Panama
1950's Chou Enlai, Prime Minister of China, several attempts on his
life
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premiere of North Korea
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawhar Lal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1959 and 1963 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1950s-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 Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, more than 15 attempts on
his life
1960s – Raul Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamanao, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965 – Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvadore Allende, President of Chile
1970 – General Rene Schneider, Commander-in-
Chile1970s
1981 – Gen. 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
1983 – Miguel d'Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine commandants of the Sandinista National Directorate
1980's – Dr. Gerald Bull, Canadian Ballistics Scientist assassinated
by Mossad in Belgium.
B. Partial List of Muslim Leaders Assassinated or Attempted
Assassinations:
1950's Sukarno, President of Indonesia,
1957 Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt,
1960 Brigadier General, Abdul Karim Kassem, Leader of Iraq,
1980-86 Muammar Qaddafi, Leader of Libya, several plots and attempts
upon his life
1982 Ayatullah Khomeini, Leader of Iran
1983 General Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan army Commander
1985 Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadllallah, Lebanese Shiite Leader (80
people killed in that attempt)
1991 Saddam Hussein, Leader of Iraq (when Saddam no longer obeyed
American orders)
Reference: Blum, William, "KILLING HOPE - U.S. Military and CIA
Interventions Since World War II," Appendix III U.S. Government
Assassination Plots, page 453,Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine
1995. ISBN 1-56751-052-
Very likely Victims: April 4, 1979 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Leader of
Pakistan, for pursuing making of Nuclear Bomb.
August, 1988. General Ziaul Haq, Military Leader of Pakistan.
1995 - Murtaza Bhutto, Son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Anti-American
would-be Leader -Pakistan.
March 25, 1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia through his Nephew,
Saudi Arabia for imposing 1973 Oil Embargo.
August 24, 1999. Mullah Mohammad Omar, in Kandhar, Afghanistan.
A List of Known Assassination Plots:
950's Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1957 Gamal Abdul Nasser
2001 Since early this year (2004) more than 40 Palestinian leaders
assassinated through surrogate Israel.
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