Techniques
were not effective, says Senate report.
Following World War II, the
United States became secretly engaged in a practice of international political
assassinations and attempts on foreign leaders; were not because the United
"States of the Americas was at war with any particular country nor were
they in retribution for any attack ON the United States of the Americas.
Most Often No War was Ever Declared. Assassination being the extreme
form of censorship, these assassinations and attempted assassinations
were carried out simply because the leader or leaders of That Particular
Country Differed in Political Beliefs and Policies From Those Demanded
(dictated) by the United Sates of the Americas.
Of Course, as is usual when
Facts are incompatible with American principle,
international order, and morality or In Contrast To
Their CLAIMED Or Even Honestly Desirable Role in the World Affairs; for a
considerable period, the U.S. Government officials vehemently denied any
knowledge of this program. It would be against the United Nations Charter.
On
March 5, 1972, Richard Helms, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director,
declared that, "no such activity or operations be undertaken, assisted, or
suggested by any of our personnel”.
In 1975, the U.S. Senate convened the Senate
Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
Activities. Chaired by the Senator Frank Church the committee uncovered that
CIA and other governmental agencies employed a so-called tactic of "plausible
deniability" during decision-making related to assassinations. CIA
subordinates were deliberately shielding the higher-ranking officials from any
responsibility by withholding full amount of information about planned
assassinations. Government employees were obtaining tacit approval of their
acts by using euphemisms and sly wording in communications
There
were, at least, eight attempts by the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro in
1960-1965. Fabian Escalante, a retired chief of Cuba's counterintelligence, who
tasked with protecting Fidel Castro, estimated the number of assassination
schemes or actual attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency to be 638. Some
of them were a part of the covert CIA program dubbed Operation Mongoose aimed
at toppling the Cuban government.
The assassination attempts reportedly included
cigars poisoned with botulin toxin, a tubercle bacilli infected scuba-diving
suit along with a booby-trapped conch placed on the sea bottom, an exploding
cigar, a ballpoint pen containing a hypodermic syringe preloaded with the
lethal concoction Blackleaf 40, and plain, mafia-style execution endeavours.
Some of
the plots depicted in a documentary film entitled 638 Ways to Kill Castro
(2006) aired on Channel 4 of the British public-service television.
Castro
once said, in regards to the numerous attempts on his life he believed made,
"If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win
the gold medal”.
According to U.S. Government declassified
documents, Kennedy Administration officials exerted a heavy pressure on the CIA
to solve the "Castro problem."
It explains a staggering number of assassination plots, aiming at creating a
favourable impression on President John F. Kennedy. There were five phases in
the assassination attempts, with planning involving the CIA, the Department of Defence,
and the State Department.
According
to the CIA documents, the so-called Family Jewels declassified in 2007, one
assassination attempt on Fidel Castro prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion
involved noted American mobsters Johnny Roselli, Salvatore Giancana and Santo
Trafficante.
In
September 1960, Salvatore Giancana, a successor of Al Capone, in the Chicago
Outfit, and Miami Syndicate leader Santo Trafficante, both on the FBI's Ten
Most Wanted list at that time, were indirectly contacted by the CIA about the
possibility of Fidel Castro assassination.
Besides
attempts on Fidel Castro, the CIA accused of involvements in the assassination
of such foreign leaders as Rafael Trujillo, Patrice Lumumba and Ngo Dinh Diem.
President
Gerald Ford signed,1977, a—VERY EFFECTIVE, Ha Ha-Executive Order which stated: "No
employee of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire in,
political assassination
New
York, December 9,2014 - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would make
sure that the United States never again resorted to torture after a damning
Senate report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program.
Obama said in a statement. “It
was a Troubling
Program Involving Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on terrorism suspects In Secret Facilities outside
the United States, and It Reinforces my long-held view that these harsh methods
were Not
Only Inconsistent With our Values as
nation, They Did Not
Serve Our Broader Counterterrorism Efforts Or Our National Security Interests.
The United States of the Americas, very obviously, in truth,
is the World Terrorist Organisation. © Al Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan. All rights reserved
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