-what about james forrestal?-- In cia- [EMAIL PROTECTED], "norgesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION" > > "the > contrived > accident is > the most > effective > technique" > > "Care is required to insure that no wound or condition not attributable to the fall is discernible after death." > > http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Documents/Assassination% 20Manual.html > > --- > > New York Times article > reporting declassification of CIA assassination manual. > > > May 28, 1997 > > > > C.I.A. Plotted Killing of 58 in Guatemala > > By TIM WEINER > ASHINGTON, May 27 -- The Central Intelligence Agency, plotting to overthrow the Guatemalan Government in the early 1950's, drew up a ''disposal list'' of at least 58 key leaders, and it trained assassins to kill them, newly declassified documents show. > > The coup, code-named Operation Success, toppled the freely elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, and installed the first of a series of right-wing leaders friendly to the United States. > > The assassination plans were never carried out, according to an official C.I.A. history of the coup. ''Until the day that Arbenz resigned in June 1954 the option of assassination was still being considered,'' the history concludes. > > The 1,400 pages of newly declassified documents represent fewer than 1 percent of the C.I.A.'s files on the coup. A former C.I.A. official, Clair E. George, testified in 1983 that the agency's records on the coup ran to about 180,000 pages. > > The C.I.A. also deleted the names of the Americans who carried out the coup. Those whose titles show up, but whose names were stricken from the records, include agency officials whose identities have long been public, like Frank Wisner, then the agency's chief of covert operations, and his field commander for the coup, Col. Albert Haney. This censorship drew a statement of regret on Sunday from Guatemala's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eduardo Stein. > > The documents add at least three sets of important new information to the historical record: the existence of the assassination plans of the agency, aspects of its propaganda campaign against Mr. Arbenz, and details of the agency's early efforts to recruit members of the Guatemalan military. > > The planning began in 1952, after the President of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, proposed to President Harry S. Truman that they work together to overthrow Mr. Arbenz, who had been elected in 1950. Mr. Arbenz's left-wing politics angered the United States. > > Mr. Truman told the C.I.A. to go forward. The agency launched a short-lived operation, shipping guns and money to Guatemalan exiles. The operation's cover was blown within five weeks and it was abandoned in October 1952. But the plan lived on. > > In 1953, under President Eisenhower, the C.I.A. drew up plans for assassinations, sabotage and propaganda to overthrow Mr. Arbenz. The assassination list contained the names of at least 58 Guatemalan supporters of Mr. Guzman who the C.I.A. suspected were Communists. Late that year, the National Security Council gave Operation Success the go-ahead. The State Department, by then led by John Foster Dulles, the brother of the Director of Central Intelligence, Allen W. Dulles, worked closely with the C.I.A. > > The coup went quickly, from June 16 through June 27, 1954, with radio propaganda and political subversion proving to be the most effective weapons. Mr. Arbenz resigned, denounced the United States and took refuge in Mexico. > > C.I.A. plans for Operation Success called for the assassinations, and the plans were discussed in great detail at very high levels of the agency and the State Department, the records show. > > No record of the formal approval or disapproval of the plans by President Eisenhower or the Dulles brothers has been made public. None likely exists. The newly released files include a 22-page how- to manual on murder that says, ''No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded.'' > > The C.I.A. records show that it conducted what it called a ''nerve war'' against some of these targets -- government officials, ''unfriendly army officers'' and the like -- in 1953 and 1954. Its plans included sending them death threats; telephoning them, ''preferably between 2 and 5 A.M.,'' with blood-curdling warnings, and denouncing them to their superiors with accusations ranging ''from treason to tax evasion.'' > > And they show that the agency considered the Guatemalan military ''the only organized element in Guatemala'' through which political change could take place. That change, says a 1953 C.I.A. document, had to begin with the ''subversion and defection of army leaders.'' The agency has had Guatemalan military men on its payroll ever since. > > The 1954 coup was the first chapter in the C.I.A.'s long and continuing liaison with the Guatemalan military. Those ties deepened over the decades during a scorched-earth campaign against a small Communist insurgency. The civil war in Guatemala, touched off in part by the coup, ended only five months ago. More than 100,000 civilians were killed. > > > Sidney Gottlieb, Took LSD to C.I.A., Dies at 80 (March 10, 1999) > > Aging Shop of Horrors: The C.I.A. Limps to 50 (July 20, 1997) > > C.I.A. Plotted Killing of 58 in Guatemala (May 28, 1997) > > William E. Colby, Head of C.I.A. in a Time of Upheaval, Dies at 76 (May 7, 1996) > > Alice Wicks Olson, Forced an LSD Inquiry, Dies at 77 (Aug. 6, 1993) > > C.I.A.'s Files on LSD Death Found to be Contradictory (Jan. 11, 1976) > > Olson's Bar a Suit on LSD Death; Hope Congress Will Pass Damages Bill (Dec. 19, 1975) > > Family in LSD Case Gets Ford Apology (July 22, 1975) > > Ex-C.I.A. Employee Says He Took LSD As a Reluctant 'Guinea Pig' in Tests (July 19, 1975) > > Destruction of LSD Data Laid to C.I.A. Aide in '73 (July 18, 1975) > > Ex-C.I.A. Aide Says Scientist Who Died Knew About LSD Tests (July 18, 1975) > > Death Inquiry Is Reopened in LSD Case (July 12, 1975) > > Detective Said Scientist had 'Severe Psychosis' (July 11, 1975) > > Family Plans to Sue C.I.A. Over Suicide in Drug Test (July 10, 1975) > > In The Magazine > What Did the C.I.A. Do to Eric Olson's Father? (April 1, 2001) > > http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/28/magazine/970528OLSON.html? ex=1126497600&en=2d842f3332d88a11&ei=5070 > > ~~ > > See note on Richard Bissell's thoughts about a CIA method of murder that would not arouse curiosity. > > Shutting off curiosity: > > Notes on Evan Thomas' book, > The Very Best Men-Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA > > http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Sources/Notes%20on%20items%20&% 20events/Thomas-BestMen.html > > ---- > > Chronology: > The Death of Frank Olson in Historical Context > > From "Work-related accident" to "Mind-control murder" > > First period: To the death of Frank Olson > > http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Dates/Chronology/Chronology1.html > > Second period: From the death of Frank Olson to lunch with William Colby > > http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Dates/Chronology/Chronology2.html > > ----- > > http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html

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