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Shawangunk Journal
February 8, 2018
He was so bad-ass that the CIA was terrified of him, and would refer to him on a first-name basis. ("How did that CIA assassination manual get out — oh, that was Bob.") Parry was not an extremist, and he did not hold to any radical ideologies, beyond "reality is important" and "the government shouldn't lie allÃÂ ...
The Intercept
February 7, 2018
Jeremy blasts the use of former CIA and NSA officials as news analysts and the hypocrisy surrounding the FISA debate. In 1953, CIA ...... So in the “CIA Assassination” — well, you explain it, in the “CIA Assassination Manual,” describe the method of killing people that is dealt with in Wormwood. EM: Well it'sÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 4, 2018
A year before that, he won a George Polk Award for exposing the CIA's production of an assassination manual for the right-wing contras the Reagan administration was supporting to overthrow the elected leftist government in Nicaragua. Author and TAC contributing editor Mark Perry, who met Bob in theÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
January 31, 2018
Mr. Parry won the George Polk Award for national reporting in 1984 for his revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency had provided an assassination manual to the so-called Contras, the right-wing insurgents who were seeking to topple the socialist government in Nicaragua. Mr. Parry was part of anÃÂ ...
ARL now
January 30, 2018
Robert Parry Obituary — “Robert Parry, an investigative journalist who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985 for his Associated Press exclusives about the CIA's production of an assassination manual for Nicaraguan rebels, died Jan. 27 in Arlington, Va. He was 68.” [Washington Post, Consortiumnews].
AlterNet
January 30, 2018
Bob Parry, the veteran journalist who died Saturday at age 68, was a reporter's reporter, a cheerful, dogged, independent fact-gatherer who didn't give a damn about respectable Washington. More than any other reporter, Parry uncovered the national scandal that would become known as the Iran-contraÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 28, 2018
Parry, a longtime investigative journalist who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985 for his Associated Press exclusives about the CIA's production of an assassination manual for Nicaraguan rebels, has died at age 68. Parry died Saturday, jan. 27, 2018, in hospice care after a series of strokes brought on byÃÂ ...
Reason
January 26, 2018
But there's no denying that much of the country was pretty stunned to learn in 1975 that a CIA employee named Frank Olson jumped out a 10th-floor hotel ... out the window—by malign coincidence, exactly the technique recommended in a 1953 CIA assassination manual that's come to light in recent years.
AV Club
December 21, 2017
In 1997, three years later, the CIA's assassination manuals were released along with a trove of documents pertaining to the United States' coup in Guatemala. Eric contacted the National Security Archives to obtain the first manual used in 1953, which states very clearly that the most efficient assassinationÃÂ ...
AV Club
December 22, 2017
In 1997, three years later, the CIA's assassination manuals were released along with a trove of documents pertaining to the United States' coup in Guatemala. Eric contacted the National Security Archives to obtain the first manual used in 1953, which states very clearly that the most efficient assassinationÃÂ ...
Vogue.com
December 15, 2017
On November 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a United States government scientist who was working with the CIA, went out the window of his room at the Hotel Statler in .... His injuries and manner of death were also eerily consistent with methods described in a CIA assassination manual from the early 1950s.
MWC News
November 27, 2017
Not surprisingly, the CIA began specializing in assassination and cover-up practically from the get-go, as reflected by its 1953 top-secret assassination manual, which was called “A Study of Assassination.” The manual was prepared as part of the CIA's secret regime-change operation in Guatemala, whichÃÂ ...
Gossip and Gab
September 13, 2017
In American Assassin, Dylan O'Brien stars as Mitch Rapp, a youthful counter-fear based oppression agent in the CIA. Under the direction of veteran CIA operator Stan Hurley ... Why did Rapp choose to join the Central Intelligence Agency in any case? “A ton's occurred in my life,” he says. Ok, indeed, everyÃÂ ...
PCWorld
March 13, 2017
Has the CIA ever spied on you? That's a key question swirling around the WikiLeaks document dump that allegedly details the U.S. agency's secret hacking tools. The documents themselves don't reveal much about who the CIA might have snooped on. But the agency certainly has the power to spy onÃÂ ...
Peninsula Daily News
January 29, 2017
Bush caused the death of over 1.5 million Iraqis for lies about WMD, and his father distributed a CIA assassination manual advocating killing anyone associated with the Sandinista gov't, including teachers, nurses, school bus drivers, labor activists, and the World Court judgement for billions of $ in terroristÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
November 18, 2015
And, this congressman noted, then-CIA director William Casey, though he had disciplined five midlevel CIA officers involved with the assassination manual, had taken no action against Clarridge; Casey had even made sure that Clarridge's name would not appear in an inspector general's classified reportÃÂ ...
Vulture
December 31, 1999
This episode also gives more information about the CIA's battle-tested assassination manual circa 1953, the year of Frank's death, and declassified in 1997. The manual includes the very suspicious-looking (to Eric, anyway) piece of advice to “drop” targets from large heights and make it look like a suicide.
Foster's Daily Democrat
December 31, 1999
In Morris' hands, it's as much a true-crime whodunit as a conspiracy theorist's dream come true, replete with covert, Cold War-era CIA operations, ... Documents obtained here include an alleged CIA assassination manual from the 1950s that provides a step-by-step guide on the best way to dispose ofÃÂ ...
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