The President's kill list : assassination and US foreign policy since 1945 / Luca Trenta.
"From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of methods, from the use of poison to...
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| Other title: | Assassination and US foreign policy since 1945 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The US government and the assassination of foreign officials
- Experimenting with assassination : brainwashing, poison and early cold war plots
- Patrice Lumumba : Eisenhower's order to kill
- Fidel Castro : The US government's assassination capaign against Cuba
- Rafael Trujillo : assassination and the US role in covert regime change
- Ngo Dinh Diem : preparing the ground for assassination
- Rene Schneider : removing the main obstacle to a coup in Chile
- The 'season of inquiry' and the fight over the ban on assassination
- Muhammar Qaddafi : the return of assassination during the Reagan years
- Manuel Noriega : coups, failed coups and the ban on assassination
- Saddam Hussein : assassination and the long confrontation between the US government and Iraq
- Osama Bin Laden : assassination and counterterrorism on the road to 9/11
- Conclusion: Assassination, 'targeted killings' and the ban since 9/11.