North/South Korea reach agreement (North Korea threatens United States pg. 5)

[godfather]

Lots.

Mosaddegh, is one of the most widely known.

Here's a not-so-comprehensive list of supposed assassination targets:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_1945

Here's The Guardian's short list:
Achmad Sukarno of Indonesia In 1975 the US Senate Church committee, investigating the activities of the CIA, noted that it had "received some evidence of CIA involvement in plans to assassinate President Sukarno." An agent had been identified who it was believed might be recruited for the job.

As a leader of the nationalist non-aligned movement, Sukarno was seen by the US as a dangerous irritant. He was overthrown in a bloody coup in 1965 and died under house arrest five years later.

Fidel Castro of Cuba The CIA hatched several plots to kill Castro between 1960 and 1965. "The proposed assassination devices ran the gamut from high-powered rifles to poison pills, poison pens, deadly bacterial powders and other devices which strain the imagination," according to the Church report.

Patrice Lumumba of Congo President Eisenhower ordered the assassination of the country's first prime minister in 1960. CIA chief Allen Dulles sent a CIA scientist to Congo with a lethal virus. But before the plan could be activated, Lumumba was deposed. He was later captured with CIA help and killed by rebel forces.

Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic The administrations of Eisenhower and Kennedy, through the CIA, plotted the assassination of the dictator for several years before a group of dissidents shot him to death in 1961.

Salvador Allende of Chile President Nixon made it clear in 1970 that a CIA assassination of the new left-wing president would not be unwelcome. Allende was killed in a 1973 coup.

Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia He claimed that the CIA set up several plots to kill him in the early 1960s. He was deposed in a 1970 coup.

Muammar Gadafy of Libya After a Libyan terrorist attack in Berlin in 1986, US jets tried to kill Gadafy in bombings which included a strike at his personal compound. It killed his infant adopted daughter.

Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia The US targeted Milosevic during the Nato bombing campaign of 1999, narrowly missing him when his empty villa was hit by three laser bombs

Osama bin Laden After 9/11 President Bush issued an authority to kill Bin Laden and two dozen top aides if they could not be captured alive. Last November six suspected followers, including one of the principal strategists, Salim Sinan al-Harethi, were killed in their car by an unmanned CIA Predator plane in Yemen.

Yeah, the CIA is hardly a choir club.


I am sure the entire list would be in the hundred's, at least.

 

[bob2the2nd]

DPRK has tested three weapons so far. The strongest was in the 6-9 KT range. It is thought the maximum strength of that weapon could be close to 40 KT. It is estimated their stockpile is between 12-20 warheads.

Their ability to deliver those weapons is primitive. Their best intercontinental ballistic missile, the Taepodong-2, supposedly has a range capable of delivering a single warhead as far as Anchorage. Of course, they have never successfully tested the missile.

If you want to have some morbid fun, check out NUKEMAP to see how many people would be killed by nukes of various sizes. A direct hit (not likely with their technology) on Anchorage with a 10 KT device kills 9,000 people.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

okay fine, they may have nukes they just have absolutely no way to deliver them. the worry is chem/bio not nukes

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Jesus. I suck at history.

Which leaders?

I don't think the CIA has actually assassinated even one head of a foreign nation.

 

[gourimoko]

I don't think the CIA has actually assassinated a single foreign leader.

What a remarkably stupid, willfully ignorant thing to say...

CNN:
In declassified document, CIA acknowledges role in '53 Iran coup

Sixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges that the agency was involved in the 1953 coup.

The independent National Security Archive research institute, which published the document Monday, says the declassification is believed to mark the CIA's first formal acknowledgment of its involvement.

The documents, declassified in 2011 and given to George Washington University research group under the Freedom of Information Act, come from the CIA's internal history of Iran from the mid-1970s and paint a detailed picture of how the CIA worked to oust Mossadegh.

In a key line pointed out by Malcom Byrne, the editor who worked through the documents, the CIA spells out its involvement in the coup. "The military coup that overthrew Mossadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," the document says, using a variation of the spelling of Mossadegh's name.

While this might be the CIA's first formal nod, the U.S. role has long been known.

President Barack Obama acknowledged the United States' involvement in the coup during a 2009 speech in Cairo.

"In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government," the president said.

 

[gourimoko]

okay fine, they may have nukes they just have absolutely no way to deliver them. the worry is chem/bio not nukes

This is not true. The SCUD missile can carry a nuclear warhead 1,600km.

I think you mean to say, they have no way to deliver them - to the continental United States. That would be true, but tell that to the South Koreans and the Japanese.

 

[godfather]

I think Q was being sarcastic?

 

[gourimoko]

I think Q was being sarcastic?

He's not.. the guy is completely brainwashed.. It's widely known we ran large-scale covert assassination and paramilitary operations throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I think Q was being sarcastic?

No, I was serious.

Maybe I'm forgetting someone, so to be safe, can you list even two?

ETA: I've just run into these claims before. Usually, what you get is a recitation of failed/cancelled/unsuccessful/abandoned plots. That's why I asked for actual assassinations..

 

[gourimoko]

NYT:

The peak of outrage against government-sponsored assassination was the mid-1970s, when the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations — better known as the Church committee — spent more than 60 days questioning 75 witnesses about C.I.A. plots of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Back in the darkest days of the cold war, the agency had devoted significant resources and creativity to devising unhappy ends for unsavory or inconvenient foreign leaders. Among those listed for assassination were Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and, most famously, Fidel Castro of Cuba, who survived no fewer than eight C.I.A. assassination plots. The senators on the committee were intent on divining the full extent of the government’s role in these plots. How much direct authority, for example, did Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy exert over them? The committee’s conclusions were vague at best. The truth was that neither president would have allowed his hand to show in such affairs.

 

[gourimoko]

A recently declassified interview with then-US National Security Council minutekeeper Robert Johnson revealed that U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had said "something [to CIA chief Allen Dulles] to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated".[55] The interview from the Senate Intelligence Committee's inquiry on covert action was released in August 2000.[58]

In December 2013, the U.S. State Department admitted that President Eisenhower authorized the murder of Lumumba. The CIA Chief, Allan Dulles, allocated $100,000 to accomplish the act, but this plan was not carried out.

Lol @ not carried out, but the funds were transferred and he was indeed killed.

 

[gourimoko]

ETA: I've just run into these claims before. Usually, what you get is a recitation of failed/cancelled/unsuccessful/abandoned plots. That's why I asked for actual assassinations..

Most of the people mentioned were actually assassinated.

 

[macbdog]

Mohammad

Most of the people mentioned were actually assassinated.

They were? Each reference said they deposed in a coup, all but one you mentioned died several years later. Even the Iranian prime minister. What the CSiA has clearly done, repeatedly, is sponsor coups- they make sure the leadership they prefer gets in. But they weren't killed in most cases, and if killed later, well, that would be a move made by the folks now in charge. None of those examples were just straight executions.

 

[gourimoko]

They were? Each reference said they deposed in a coup, all but one you mentioned died several years later. Even the Iranian prime minister. What the CSiA has clearly done, repeatedly, is sponsor coups- they make sure the leadership they prefer gets in. But they weren't killed in most cases, and if killed later, well, that would be a move made by the folks now in charge. None of those examples were just straight executions.

Wait, so orchestrating a coup, eliminating leadership, and having them tried, imprisoned and potentially assassinated while you install a puppet government doesn't count as CIA assassinations? Are you familiar with the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh and the installation of the Shah in Iran?

The people referenced above were assassinated in a coup; the reason we had them assassinated was to change governments and install one under our influence - therefore, a coup would be a prelude to an assassination attempt.

I think you might be interpreting things very differently than most.

Please read the articles from CNN, the New York Times, and The Guardian above. I can provide at least a dozen more.

 

[Sebastian]

Why can't we assassinate guys like Kim Jong Il/Kim Jong Un? Or pay someone in North Korea to do so?

I always wonder why we don't assassinate more of these guys. Why didn't someone assassinate Hitler, for example?

There were at least 13 organized attempts on Hitler's life between 1938-1945. The first being elements of the German Army would have launched a coup to remove and kill Hitler from power had the British not caved at Munich.

All the other attempts failed by a scrote hair in the least likely ways (the table leg and/or single bar of plastique during the July 20th attempt, diarrhea at an exhibition) Hitler was very lucky about avoiding death. As it turns out, he was the only man that could kill him.

 

[Simon]

Nothing new really, just a timeline of events as the deadline nears.