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Article: 569 of sgi.talk.ratical
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From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
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Subject: Top Secret: How To Kill--"The CIA's Secret Weapons Systems"
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Keywords: our culture has lost its moral, ethical, and spiritual foundations
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:56:51 GMT
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unless we know MUCH MORE about the atrocities committed "in the interests
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and name of `national security,'" how can we possibly become sufficiently
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motivated and driven to dedicate our energies towards changing this form
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of "government" by lies, dissembling, expediency, profit-as-god, and
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murder? we have no idea what is "done in our name." if we did, we would
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no longer be able to participate in its commoditized seductiveness because
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we would not be able to look ourselves in the mirror or sleep at night.
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--ratitor
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the following is taken from the June, 1978 issue of "Gallery" magazine:
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THE CIA'S SECRET WEAPONS SYSTEMS
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by Andrew Stark
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Exploding wine bottles, guns constructed out of pipes,
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bullets made of teeth, aspirin explosives: they sound like
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props from a second-rate spy story. Horrifyingly enough,
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they are real. The CIA has spent a great deal of its time--
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and your money--developing countless bizarre weapons for
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assassination, sabotage, and mass destruction. If that's
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news to you, it's because the CIA doesn't want these
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products, some of which are quite easy to put together, to
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fall into the "wrong hands." As for whether they are in the
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right hands now--judge for yourself.
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The CIA has developed many exotic and sophisticated devices
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intended for use in interrogation, sabotage, and assassination.
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These weapons are necessary--if you grant that what the CIA itself
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does is necessary. If the CIA wants to eliminate a key KGB agent
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operating in Hungary, it faces certain problems. It would be
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virtually impossible to slip a deadly weapon, such as a gun or
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bomb, past Hungarian customs officials. Thus, the CIA assassin
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must assemble his weapon from commonly obtainable materials after
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he crosses the border.
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The CIA agent might decide to construct a urea nitrate
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explosive, commonly known as a urine bomb. This weapon is quite
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deadly, easily exploded, and consists primarily of nitric acid and
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urine. The urine bomb is one of literally hundreds of murderous
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weapons in the CIA arsenal.
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"The New York Times" of September 26, 1975 revealed the
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existence of guns that shoot cobra-venom darts. Then there was the
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shoe polish compound intended to make Fidel Castro's beard fall
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out, so that he would lose his "charisma." And CIA laboratories in
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Fort Monmouth, New Jersey developed the famous rifle that shoots
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around corners.
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Some CIA weapons are designed to kill many people--deadly germs
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can be released in subways; others are intended to kill a single,
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specific individual--the Borgia ring contains deadly poison to be
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slipped into a victim's drink; and still others are standard
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weapons supplied for such missions as overthrowing the Allende
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government in Chile in 1973.
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The information about CIA weapons that you will read in this
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article generally has not been made public before. It was not
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intended to be. But your tax dollars pay for these devices; it is
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your right to know about them.
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There is a booklet, written in 1977 and distributed to a select
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group of U.S. mercenaries, titled "CIA Improvised Sabotage
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Devices." This instructional guidebook, part of "the Combat
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Bookshelf," was published by Desert Publications, P.O. Box 22005,
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Phoenix, Arizona 85028. If you want to know how the CIA turns a
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cigar box into an explosive that can destroy a 10,000-gallon
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capacity storage tank, then "CIA Improvised Sabotage Devices" is
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what you should read. You will need it if you want to build the
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"Water-Drip Electric Delay," a bomb that requires little more than
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wood scrap, a tin can, and a battery. The "Pocket Watch Electric
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Delay" requires little more than a watch, a screw, and a battery.
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The "Mousetrap Electric Release" is another bomb, this one
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requiring a mousetrap, a trip wire, a battery, and little else. It
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is described as "an excellent device to use with bazooka rockets
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against trucks, tanks, or locomotives." The "Chemical
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Instantaneous Initiator" is made from a sugar-chlorate mix and is
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effective in sabotaging trains. The "Martini Glass Shaped Charge"
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is a bomb that also can be made out of a beer can. You might want
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to try to construct the "Vehicle Booby Trap." The "Potassium
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Chlorate and Sugar Igniter" and the "Sawdust, Moth Flakes, and Oil
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Incendiary" can be made with only what you see in their titles.
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For these and more than fifty other CIA devices, step-by-step
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instructions on how to make them and illustrations of what they
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should look like when completed are given. Turn a wine bottle into
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a bomb. Build a land-mine rocket. Manufacture napalm in your
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basement. Even the simple how-tos of causing a dust explosion can
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be found in "CIA Improvised Sabotage Devices."
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Why is the CIA so deeply involved in sabotage techniques? The
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CIA might think it is in this country's interest to delay
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scientific work being done by another nation. Or, the CIA might
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want to disrupt a nation's economy in the hope that the resulting
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chaos will lead to civil unrest and the overthrow of the existing
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government (some of this actually happened in Chile). The original
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John Rockefeller used such tactics against his competitors. He
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simply had their refineries blown up.
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Another pamphlet the CIA would not like you to see is titled
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"How to Kill," written by John Minnery, edited by Robert Brown and
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Peder Lund, and published by Paladin Press, Box 1307, Boulder,
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Colorado 80306. The reason the CIA would prefer that you not see
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this eighty-eight-page pamphlet, which is unavailable at bookstores
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and newsstands, is because it contains a number of "ingenious"
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methods of doing what the title says. Also, Paladin Press, which
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published a book called "OSS Sabotage and Demolition Manual," is
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widely regarded by journalists as an organization with close ties
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to mercenary groups and the CIA. Paladin Press doesn't want you to
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know that, but how else could they have published the "OSS Sabotage
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and Demolition Manual?" The Office of Strategic Services was the
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precursor of today's CIA.
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This writer's call to Colorado yielded the following
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conversation:
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"How could you publish the "OSS Sabotage and Demolition Manual,"
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I asked Peter Lund, editor and publisher of Paladin Press, "if your
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organization, at the least, was not dealing with former OSS agents?
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And what about "How to Kill?"
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"I don't talk to journalists," Lund said.
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"You're called the Paladin Press. You must publish books. Can
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I order them?"
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"No."
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"Why not? You're a publisher, aren't you?"
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"We're afraid our publications might fall into the wrong hands."
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"What are the right hands?" I asked.
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"I don't talk to journalists."
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"Have you ever heard of Desert Publications?" I asked.
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"A fine outfit," Lund said. "If they recommend you, I'll send
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you our material."
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"That's my problem," I said. "They don't seem to have a phone
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number."
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"Well, they're a good group."
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"Listen," I said, "wasn't your group, and Desert Publications
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besides, involved in CIA mercenary activity in Africa?"
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"I don't know anything about that."
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"Were you in the Special Forces?"
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"July 1967 to July 1968 in Vietnam."
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"Were you CIA?"
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"I was MACV [Military Armed Forces Command Vietnam]."
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"You weren't affiliated with CIA?"
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"I didn't say that."
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"What do you say?"
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"We did joint operations with CIA on the Phoenix Program."
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"Wasn't that a murder operation?"
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"No. It was snatching people."
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The Phoenix Program was designed for a job that the CIA
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euphemistically described as "eliminating the Viet Cong
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infrastructure." In reality, it was a rampant reign of terror run
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out of CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. Former CIA director
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William Colby later termed the program "effective." The Phoenix
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Program was a naked murder campaign, as proved by every realistic
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report, ranging from the Bertrand Russell Tribunal to the Dellums
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Committee to admissions by CIA agents themselves. The program
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killed--and *none* of these killings occurred in combat--18,000
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people, mostly women and children.
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But what about Peder Lund, editor and publisher of Paladin
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Press? The book he edited and published, "How to Kill," outlined a
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surfeit of murder methods, horrific techniques of causing people to
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die. For example:
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"Without getting too deeply into the realm of the bizarre,"
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wrote John Minnery, the author of "How to Kill" as he proceeded to
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just that, "a specially loaded bullet made from a human tooth
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(bicuspid) could be fired under the jaw or through the mouth into
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the head. The tooth is a very hard bone, and its enamel shell
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would allow it to penetrate into the brain. The intention here is
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also to hide the cause of death because the examiner in his search
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for a projectile will disregard bone fragments."
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One last example from "How to Kill" should give you the flavor
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of the book:
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Lesson Nine: Hot Wire
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"Essentially, the weapon is an electrified grid in the urinal
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basin. This can take the form of a screen cover for the drain
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or a metal grill. If the urinal is completely porcelain, the
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screen must be added by the assassin. The drain cover is
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connected to the electrical system of the washroom by means of
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an insulated cord that is hidden behind the plumbing.
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"What happens when the subject uses the urinal should be
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obvious now. The subject's urine, which is a salty liquid and
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a perfect conductor of electricity, makes contact with the
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charged grid, and the shock will kill him."
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This reporter's investigation revealed that the "Hot Wire" was
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child's play compared to certain other CIA weapons devices. For
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instance, I was able to obtain Volumes One and Two of the "CIA
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Black Book" on improvised munitions, volumes that are stamped "for
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official use only" on almost every page. It is obvious why the CIA
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would like these books to remain secret. With elaborate
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instructions, they describe how to make high explosives from
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aspirin, how to construct a nail grenade, and how to turn a Coke
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bottle into a bomb.
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Described in detail in the "Black Book" is the previously
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mentioned urea nitrate explosive, or, as it is known to the pros,
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"the piss bomb." Instructions for the preparation of this weapon
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assure the maker that animal urine will do as well as human; the
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important thing is to have ten cups of it, boil it down to one cup,
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and mix it with the nitric acid.
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Also described in the "Black Book" is how to construct a pipe
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pistol, which, as the name indicates, is a gun constructed out of a
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pipe. Other weapons include a cooking syringe filled with poison
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that can be stabbed into "the subject's" stomach; a cyanide gas
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pistol; a throat cutter gauntlet knife (razor sharp and only an
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inch or so in length); and a mixture of fertilizer and aluminum
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powder that can be made into a powerful bomb.
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Why build murder weapons out of such weird material? Is the CIA
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insane?
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No. In its own way, the whole thing is perfectly logical.
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The pamphlet "How to Kill" explained it all: "As most of these
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devices are homemade, this precludes the possibility of their being
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traced. They are, in effect, `sanitized' and perfect for
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assassinations, where weapons are prohibited, or where customs in
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the hostile country are stringent, so these can be made from local
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materials."
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Being a contract killer for the CIA is not all roses. You
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cannot kill in just any way. A number of attempts have been made
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on Fidel Castro's life--some with the CIA and the Mafia
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cooperating--and some of them may have failed because of
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restrictions imposed on the potential assassins. It would be
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unacceptable for Castro's murder to be laid at the door of the CIA.
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This would make Castro a martyr in the eyes of his countrymen.
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Thus, a method that would suggest death by natural causes must be
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found.
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Abundant speculation and considerable evidence suggest that the
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CIA or some other government agency arranged for the "natural"
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deaths of David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, George De Mohrenschildt, and
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other potential witnesses into the assassination of John Kennedy.
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Some methods of killing, like the injection of an air bubble into
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the bloodstream, will often go unnoticed by medical examiners.
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Another hard-to-trace method of killing is to mail a snake to
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the victim. This is known as killing by long distance. A
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disadvantage to this method is that the snake might bite an
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innocent third party who just happens to open the package. The
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advantage is that once the snake has struck, the evidence can
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simply slither away.
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Sometimes, as the CIA knows, killing has to be done at close
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range. For this purpose, a valuable weapon is the ice pick with a
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blood arrester attached. The blood arrester is a cloth wrapped
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near the tip of the ice pick. When the pick is shoved into the
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victim, the spurting blood is absorbed by the blood arrester.
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People who see the victim fall will probably think he has had a
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heart attack. While the onlookers try to help the victim, the
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assassin uses this valuable ten or fifteen seconds to escape
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unnoticed.
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Often it is advisable to use what is called in the trade a
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"quiet weapon." Silenced weapons can include pistols, rifles, and
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even machine guns.
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Poison is a quiet killer. Here is a partial list of the poisons
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the CIA has become expert at administering: oil of bitter almonds;
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ant paste; cadmium, used in vapor form, and death is delayed four
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hours; radiator cleaner, also causing a delayed death;
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Cantharides (Spanish Fly); ethyl mercury; and freon, heated by a
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flame. These poisons and many others are listed in "How to Kill."
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The author then cautions the reader:
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"Unless otherwise stated, these poisons are either to be
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injected into the subject, or taken orally by him by adding it to
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his food. Use common sense in the application of these potions
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and, if possible, double the O.D. necessary."
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W.H. Bowart, in his book, "Operation Mind Control" described the
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CIA's use of drugs: "In 1953, the CIA made plans to purchase ten
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kilograms of LSD for use in `drug experiments with animals and
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human beings.' Since there are more than 10,000 doses in a gram,
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that meant the CIA wanted 100 million doses. The CIA obviously
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intended to `corner the market' on LSD so that other countries
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would not be ahead of the U.S. in their potential for `LSD
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warfare.'"
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Dr. Albert Hoffman, an early researcher into the uses of LSD,
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was horrified by what the CIA was doing: "I had perfected LSD for
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medical use, not as a weapon. It can make you insane or even kill
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you if it is not properly used under medical supervision. In any
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case, the research should be done by medical people and not by
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soldiers or intelligence agencies."
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Perhaps the most frightening weapon of all is the one that can
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be used to alter weather and climate. It was used with
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considerable success in Vietnam. It slowed troop movements with
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heavy rains, and it destroyed the rice crop, as well. The danger
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is that these climatological changes may become permanent,
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affecting not only enemies of the United States, but also the
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entire planet.
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Finally, considerable evidence exists that the United States,
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through the CIA, employed germ warfare during the Korean War. A
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number of captured pilots testified that germ warfare was used, but
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their testimony was dismissed as brainwashing. A Marine Corps
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colonel named Frank H. Schwable signed a germ warfare confession
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and, according to W.H. Bowart, "named names, cited missions,
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described meetings and strategy conferences."
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Schwable later repudiated his confession. But the charges of
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germ warfare were taken up in front of the United Nations, and a
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number of countries believed them.
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The United States, incidentally, was later charged with using
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nerve gas in Vietnam.
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What you have read on these pages is pretty revolting stuff.
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Yet, if the world ought to be saved from Communism, who can say it
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is not necessary? One danger, of course, is that these terrible
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weapons have been introduced into our body politic and have
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produced strange and terrible fruits on our own native soil. When
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assassination becomes government policy, when men are trained to
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kill in every conceivable way, when morality is set aside for a
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"higher good," can even the President of the United States consider
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himself safe?
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Andrew Stark is a pseudonym for a specialist on weaponry.
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--
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daveus rattus
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yer friendly neighborhood ratman
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KOYAANISQATSI
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ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life
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in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating.
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5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
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