Inside the assassination game - what really goes on before the smokescreens go up? 'Assassination can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it ...No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded.' CIA Assassination manual, 1954 The cost of a bullet can be as little as 8 cents. Assassination has long been more common than anyone (particularly anyone in government) likes to admit - it is the great untold secret at the heart of the nation state. Now we are entering a new era of assassination where the '8-cent option' has never been more popular. Belfield's darkly fascinating expose of the business, its hired killers and their paymasters includes excerpts from CIA, Al Quaeda and Soviet assassination manuals. It sheds light on the most important hits of modern times. He gives an eye-opening account of how Kennedy made the Vietnam War inevitable by the elimination of President Diem; and clear evidence of assassinations where the official version simply is not true, including Bobby Kennedy, Yitzhak Rabin and WPC Yvonne Fletcher. And in a powerful conclusion he shows that the world underestimated the killing of President Sadat in 1981 - this apparently isolated incident was a trigger that heralded a new age of assassination 'solutions'.
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'Richard Belfield's work on political assassinations is superbly written . . . This is a thoroughly researched, well presented and important work.' --Michael Asher, author of The Real Bravo Two Zero
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Richard Belfield runs the television production company Fulcrum TV and has done documentaries for ITV and Channel 4 on the death of Diana, the shooting of Yvonne Fletcher, and Neil Hamilton - the last of which resulted in the libel action against Al Fayed by Neil Hamilton (which he lost). He was also the Internet correspondent for the New Statesman during the mid 1990s.
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By Penny R
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A meticulously researched work of fact, that occasionally reads like a work of fiction. Exploding Chesterfields, combat frogmen, poison proof guinea pigs and most unbelievably booby trapped molluscs. Something from James Bond? No all methods of attempted assassination used in real life.
From the iconic demises of JFK and President Sadat to the fundamentalist suicide bombers of today, Richard Belfield has probed and disected with great clarity the spin and cover ups that seem to go hand in hand with assassination. The very core of agencies we are supposed to trust are shown to be at times
corrupt, and will stop at nothing short of murder to gain the higher ground.
His notes had me heading for my computer to check out the websites he mentions, which proved to be fascinating and as accessible as he told us.
I feel it is a book everyone should read. It will make you question, and look further than the spin and cover up we seem to be subjected to, almost on a daily basis.. Corruption and assassination are not confined to the KJB as many fiction and thriller writers will have us believe, in fact their track record seems to have been extremely over inflated! Western governments have been guilty of murder of democratically elected leaders by assassination, leaving behind a puppet , hopefully more compliant and corruptable, with disastrous consequences for the local people.
It is at times a chilling and jaw dropping book. The complicated stories have been unravelled and written in such a way as to make each chapter exciting and absorbing to read. I appreciated the notes which gave an extra dimension and allowed us to learn the primary sources where the author gained his information.
The main thing I took away from this book was knowledge and the fact that 'We should never underestimate the venality and the moral corrution of political leaders or the lengths to which the supine and the ambitious will go to advance themselves and their careers'
A great read...just buy it!
By Chas
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These are the ones we know of how many don't we know about Could not put it down very good read
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I'm surprised this guy wasn't assasinated himself after releasing this. The hypocrisy he details in this book makes me shiver. To think, all the free countries people put their faith in are just like the other side they condemn and interfere with. Not to mention the hilarity of the botched operations on both US and USSR sides, look guys, if you're going to do an assasination, at least stick to your own rules.
Note, this isn't a James Bond novel so if you're expecting big explosions and a volcano lair, think again. This is an account on the history of hypocrisy and the incompetence of (among others) the Kremlin and CIA in it's fledgling years.
Note, this isn't a James Bond novel so if you're expecting big explosions and a volcano lair, think again. This is an account on the history of hypocrisy and the incompetence of (among others) the Kremlin and CIA in it's fledgling years.
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Terminate With Extreme Prejudice
I am very surprised that Mr. Belfield was allowed to write and publish this book. It goes a long way to comprehensively and forensically demonstrate that many so-called... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Peter Appio
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A fair effort but a little dull
I was disappointed with this book - from the blurb it sounded like all the thrills and spills of assassinations would be recounted - spiced up with interviews with those involved,... Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2006
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