A Study of Assassination – The CIA’s Assassination Manual, 1950s

A Study of Assassination – The Central Intelligence Agency’s Assassination Manual, early nineteen‑fifties. This document appears in the public record as a training and operational guide, and it has been cited repeatedly in discussions of covert action. The record is hosted on theblackvault.com and the full PDF is available through documents2.theblackvault.com. The material was released to the public on May thirteenth, two thousand twenty‑one. It originally entered the public domain through a Freedom of Information Act request filed in nineteen ninety‑seven, and the declassification authority was the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Information Management. The Black Vault posted the scanned copy on May thirteenth, two thousand twenty‑one, assigning the entry URL shown above. Now, the document itself. The following is the first relevant section as it appears in the scanned PDF. All characters, symbols, and line breaks are reproduced exactly as they appear in the source. Redaction markers are presented in the same format as the original. -----_ .... --.~-... -..:-- f. -.-~----.-. .:... .. ---- - > ;
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