Assassinations

Nick Redfern

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A deep dive into high stakes killings, conspiracies and crimes!

Ruthless killers and murderers for hire: they are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate on command. And, in the process, they change the course of the world. They are among the world’s most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins, and they have a long history of grievous deeds.

From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths.

Did Lee Harvey Oswald really kill JFK? Or was Oswald the patsy he claimed to be?

Was Jack the Ripper, who terrified London in 1888, a madman or a ruthless secret agent of the British government?

Did the United States’ first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, kill himself, or was he thrown out of a window to his death in May 1949?

Did Marilyn Monroe take her own life in August 1962? Was a contract put out on her?

What led to the demise of Danny Casolaro, an investigative journalist who, at the time of his death in 1991, was investigating a powerful cabal known as “The Octopus”?

Was Diana, Princess of Wales, the victim of a car accident or of a carefully orchestrated plot?

Can sound waves and microwaves kill people at the flick of a switch?

Was John Lennon’s murder not at all what it appeared to be?

These questions and many more are answered in Assassinations, and with more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. It's a fascinating read that looks into how and why so many famous and influential figures just had to go!
Pat Price
Such were Pat Price’s skills when it came to the matter of remote-viewing, in 1973 Price was brought into an elite fold, one which was overseen by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. He was specifically brought into the Office of Technical Services and its Office of Research and Development. The goal was to have Price do his utmost to try and penetrate some of the most guarded secrets of the former Soviet Union. If Price could access top secret files, papers and documents created by the Russian government and military – the reasoning went – in theory the U.S. government might be able to dispense of its “secret agents” and, instead, have a near-army of psychic spies – watching the enemy via the power of the human mind. One of the CIA’s first operations was to have Price try and remote a domestic target. Namely, a classified installation run by the National Security Agency. Such were Price’s powers, he quickly – and in an extraordinary fashion – identified the facility for what it was. In the immediate wake of the successful operation, the CIA prepared the following summary, not just for itself, but for the NSA’s staff too.

The CIA stated: “Pat Price, who had no military or intelligence background, provided a list of project titles associated with current and past activities including one of extreme sensitivity. Also, the codename of the site was provided. Other information concerning the physical layout of the site was accurate.”

It wasn’t long at all before Price found himself engaged in a number of perilous situations and investigations of overseas agencies, intelligence- and military-based operations for the CIA. For example, on a number of occasions Price was ordered to target various Soviet embassies and military bases of Libya. In 1974, there was an unforeseen – but amazing – development in the life and secret career of Pat Price. He was given the task of remote-viewing Alaska’s Mount Hayes. Given the fact that the CIA’s remote-viewing project was designed to spy on foreign, and potentially dangerous, overseas nations, one has to wonder why the CIA would be spying on the United States. There was actually a very good reason as to why the CIA initiated this particular project. It was an incredible reason, too.

Upon remote-viewing the huge Mount Hayes, Price “saw” something incredible and mind-blowing: it was nothing less than a huge installation – buried deep within the heart of the mountain and run by nothing less than a vast extraterrestrial race. Not only that, the aliens looked very much like us. The only differences being that the eyes of the ETs were slightly different to ours, as were their internal organs. The fact that the CIA had ordered Price to remote-view Mount Hayes suggests that agency spies had prior knowledge of what was going on deep within the dark depths of the massive mountain. How, precisely, the CIA knew what was afoot is a matter that has never been resolved. The CIA keeps its secrets close to its chest, which is perfectly understandable. Now, we come to the most disturbing aspect of this particular, X-Files-type situation. Namely, that the more and more Price dug into the heart of the mountain - so to speak – and became more and more obsessed by the secret presence of this extraterrestrial race, he came to suspect that the aliens had the ability to manipulate us by what he described as “thought transfer for motor control of us.” In other words, mind-control. Matters didn’t end there, though. To his concern – and, admittedly, to his fascination – Price told his CIA handlers that he had uncovered nothing less than three more extraterrestrial bases in hidden in mountainous locations. They were Australia’s Mount Ziel, Mount Perdido in the Pyrenees Mountains, and Zimbabwe’s Mount Inyangani. Quite understandably, this was all very deeply concerning to the CIA. The stark reality seemed to be that potentially very dangerous aliens were living under the surface of our planet and were manipulating our minds for reasons that the CIA had yet to fathom. The whole thing worried Price and his colleagues in the CIA.

There is very little doubt that Price would have continued with his research into the matter of these underground ETs and their sinister agenda. Unfortunately, something unforeseen steeped in and brought things to a shuddering, terrible end: death. Price passed away on July 14, 1975. It was, however, the nature of his death that was so disturbing of all. Just a few days before his untimely death, Price had a number of covert rendezvous’ with a number of agents of the National Security Agency. Also, with personnel from the Office of Naval Intelligence. The meetings were initiated to determine if Price would be willing to undertake remote-viewing operations for both agencies. Price was gung-ho for both projects. In no time at all, the operations began.

Just a few days after the meetings, Price flew out of Washington, D.C. His destination: he first took a flight to Salt Lake City, and then onto Sin City itself: Las Vegas. We may never know for sure if Price suspected that his life was in danger. The fact is, however, that with all of this top secret work being undertaken for U.S. intelligence, Price became concerned about his safety to at least a certain degree. To the extent that the purpose of the flight to have over some important, sensitive documents to a friend; just in case anything were to happen to him. It was in the afternoon of July 13 that Price checked into Vegas’ Stardust Hotel. All was going good. That is, until it wasn’t. As he approached the desk to check-in, a man walked straight into Price. It was a violent collision. He felt a shooting pain in his leg, as if he had been hit with a needle. With hindsight, that may very well have been what happened. In near-quick time, Price started to feel ill and decided to lay down and take a nap. But, not before handed over those precious documents.

A few hours later, and still not feeling so good, Price met with several friends for dinner. There was something on his mind. Not only did Price tell them about the collision in the lobby just a few hours earlier, but he also confided in them that while he was in Washington, D.C. just a little more than a day earlier, he had seen someone slip something in his coffee. Having seen this chilling, covert action occur, Price left the coffee well alone and exited the restaurant quickly. As for the evening at the Stardust Hotel, it wasn’t going to well. In fact, not at all. Price cut the dinner meeting short and went back to his room.

Around 5:00 a.m. the next day, Price woke up in significant physical distress. His breathing was not right. He had severe cramps in his back and stomach and was sweating profusely. He called his friend who had those important papers, who quickly raced to Price’s room. A doctor was about to be called when Price began to convulse. Then, he went into cardiac arrest. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, who were quickly on the scene, and who managed to briefly kick-start his heart, it was all to no avail. Price was soon dead. It is a fact that Price had heart disease. With that in mind, his death could have been due to wholly natural causes and nothing else at all. But, we cannot – and should not – forget the fact that Price had seen someone surreptitiously slip something into his coffee, just a couple of days earlier. Then there was the matter of the potentially suspicious collision in the lobby of the Stardust Hotel in Vegas. You’ll recall the 1978 death of Bulgarian writer, Georgi Markov, London, England. The circumstances are, admittedly, very similar. To this day, the death of Pat Price is still discussed in hushed tones where the conspiratorial lurk.
About the Author

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1: President Lincoln taken out

2: Jack the Ripper or Jack the assassin?

3: Did he jump or was he pushed?

4: Assassination and Silencing

5: The journalist who had to die

6: Wiping out UFO researchers

7: Strange deaths in the Roswell conspiracy

8: Plans to kill Castro

9: The mysterious end of Marilyn Monroe

10: Death in Dealey Plaza

11: The enigmatic Lee Harvey Oswald

12: A president shot for his knowledge of aliens

13: Martin Luther King Jr. and a deadly bullet

14: Terminating Robert Kennedy

15: Killing a rock star

16: Almost assassinating President Ronald Reagan

17: Death on the Space Shuttle

18: The CIA’s “how to kill a man” file

19: Sinister sacrifices

20: The world mourns the disturbing death of a princess

21: The man whose hands were mysteriously missing

22: “Drowned” in a canoe

23: Killing in the name of the Slenderman

24: A news reporter is no more

25: Scientists suspiciously drop like flies

26: Murdered by the New World Order

27: The Mothman “death curse”

28: Making an assassination look like an accident

29: Conclusion

Further Reading

Index

Sujets

• Conspiracy Theories
• Social Science
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Espionage
• Conspiracy theory
• Organized Crime

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781578597147
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

A SSASSINATIONS
THE PLOTS, POLITICS, AND POWERS BEHIND HISTORY-CHANGING MURDERS

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to offer my very sincere thanks to my tireless agent, Lisa Hagan, and to everyone at Visible Ink Press, particularly Roger Janecke and Kevin Hile.
C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Photo Sources
Introduction
Early Years
President Lincoln Taken Out
Jack the Ripper or Jack the Assassin?
Murdering UFO Investigators
Blowing the Whistle
A Deadly Fall
How to Kill, CIA Style
Manipulating the Mind to a Fatal Degree
And Another Deadly Fall
Attempts to Kill Castro
The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe
Assassinated Because of Aliens
Lee Harvey Oswald and an Earlier Assassination Attempt
Death at Dealey Plaza
Words from the Warren Commission
Microwaved to Death
A Reporter Meets the Grim Reaper
Martin Luther King and a Deadly Bullet
What the U.S. Government Says about MLK
The Government and RFK
Remote Viewer Pat Price Spies on Russia
Remote Viewer Pat Price Is Killed by Russia
Death in London by a Poisoned Umbrella
Killing a Rock Star
Scientists Who Dropped Like Flies
The Marconi Mystery Grows
Death on the Space Shuttle
From Devilish to Dead
Daring to Tangle with Deadly Tentacles
Drowned by Accident or Murder?
The Death of a Princess
A Journalist Loses Her Life
Post-9/11 Assassinations
AIDS, Sarin, and Anthrax
Doctors, Bankers, and Untimely Deaths
Stopping the Human Heart
Assassination, Sacrifice, and the Occult
A Catalog of Very Weird Killings
Assassination on a Worldwide Scale
The Man with the Missing Hands
Killing by Sound
The False Flag Phenomenon
Blood and Death
Attempting to Kill in the Name of the Slenderman
Mothman Death Curse and a Fatal Date
Nuclear Nightmares and the Assassination of a President
Can t We Just Drone This Guy?
Killing on a Massive Scale
Murder from the Sky
The Most Dangerous Men of All
Further Reading
Index
P HOTO S OURCES
A1DsVu (Wikicommons): p. 256
Anthony22 (Wikicommons): p. 136
Vassia Atanassova: p. 176
Gray Barker: p. 391
George Barris: p. 90
Albert K. Bender: p. 388
Katherine Bowman: p. 346
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery: p. 13
Dan Battle Brook: p. 165
California Department of Corrections: p. 158
CBS Television: p. 134
Chrolka (Wikicommons): p. 287
Creator22 (Wikicommons): p. 183
Dallas Morning News : pp. 106 , 117 .
Dutch National Archives: p. 182
Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry: p. 364
B. D. Engler: p. 314
Equinox : p. 282
Erik1980 (Wikicommons): p. 231
Executive Office of the President of the United States: pp. 209 , 212 .
Flickr: p. 268 (Allawi).
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum: p. 127
Evan Freed: p. 155
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum: p. 220
German Federal Archive: p. 207
Bobak Ha Eri: p. 233
Maxwell Hamilton: p. 236
Anton Holoborodko: p. 354
Iraqi News Agency: p. 267
Stephen Jones: p. 294
Dan Keck: p. 334
T. Kiya: p. 242
Library of Congress: pp. 16 , 80 , 126 , 140 , 156 .
Lower Saxony State Museum: p. 2
LuxAmber (Wikicommons): p. 338
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum: p. 121
James McNellis: p. 358
Museo Che Guevara, Havana, Cuba: p. 86
NariceA (Wikicommons): p. 250
NASA/Aubrey Gemignani: p. 376
National Aeronautic and Space Administration: pp. 197 , 201 .
National Institute of Standards and Technology: p. 262
National Reconnaissance Office: p. 60
Bert Parry: p. 91
Mark Pilkington: p. 383
Puck magazine: p. 18
Nick Romanenko: p. 247
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: p. 181
Roswell Daily Record : p. 29
Shutterstock: pp. 12 , 26 , 34 , 36 , 53 , 58 , 62 , 71 , 75 , 81 , 102 , 115 , 130 , 150 , 199 , 204 , 266 , 274 , 280 , 284 , 288 , 299 , 302 , 325 , 330 , 344 , 352 , 365 , 370 , 372 , 380 , 394 .
Simon Schuster: p. 308
Smerus (Wikicommons): p. 323
John Mathew Smith / www.celebrity-photos.com : p. 228
U.S. Air Force: pp. 28 , 49 , 100 , 188 , 300 , 359 .
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency: pp. 64 , 84 , 218 .
U.S. Coast Guard: p. 168
U.S. Department of Energy: p. 42
U.S. Department of State: pp. 304 , 319 .
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation: pp. 143 , 259 .
U.S. Government: pp. 46 , 94 , 119 , 177 , 223 , 268 (Chalabi).
U.S. Navy: p. 192
U.S. Public Health Service: p. 258
U.S. War Department: p. 109
Yellow Pages : p. 31
Z22 (Wikicommons): p. 317
Public domain: pp. 6 , 8 , 14 , 15 , 19 (top and bottom), 20 , 22 , 70 , 186 , 272 , 296 , 349 .
I NTRODUCTION
R uthless killers and murderers for hire are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate to order, and in the process, they change the course of humankind. They are among the world s most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins. In Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-changing Murders you will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks and overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated wipeouts. While it is the case that the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries have proved to be the most intriguing eras in which suspicious deaths have occurred, there is nothing new at all about suspicious deaths and guns for hire.
With that all said, let s take a look at some of the questions that will be answered in the pages of this book:
Did Marilyn Monroe take her own life in August 1962? Was a contract put out on her?
Did Lee Harvey Oswald really kill JFK? Or, was Oswald the patsy he claimed to be?
Was Jack the Ripper, who terrified London in 1888, a madman or a ruthless secret agent of the British government, killing to order?
Did the United States first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, kill himself, or was he thrown out of a window to his death in May 1949?
What led to the demise of Danny Casolaro, an investigative journalist, who, at the time of his death in 1991, was investigating a powerful cabal known as The Octopus ?
Was Diana, Princess of Wales, the victim of a car accident or of a carefully orchestrated plot?
Can soundwaves and microwaves kill people at the flick of a switch?
Was John Lennon s death not all that it appeared to be?
Why are so many scientists dying under suspicious circumstances in the age of terror?
Learn the answers to these questions and many more within the pages of this book.
EARLY YEARS

A ny mention of assassinations inevitably evokes imagery of sinister men in black suits, prowling around in the darkness and the shadows, armed with a trusty pistol and silencer, and ready to take out their designated target. Sure, that s certainly a big part of the story. It s a fact, however, that assassinations have a long and controversial history, as we shall now see. In 2012, the U.K. s Telegraph newspaper ran an article titled Pharaoh s Murder Riddle Solved after 3,000 Years. In part, it stated the following:
Forensic technology suggests Ramses III, a king revered as a god, met his death at the hand of a killer, or killers, sent by his conniving wife and ambitious son. And a cadaver known as the Screaming Mummy could be that of the son himself, possibly forced to commit suicide after the plot, they added. Computed tomography (CT) imaging of the mummy of Ramses III shows that the pharaoh s windpipe and major arteries were slashed, inflicting a wound 70 millimeters (2.75 inches) wide and reaching almost to the spine, the investigators said. The cut severed all the soft tissue on the front of the neck. I have almost no doubt about the fact that Ramses III was killed by this cut in his throat, palaeopathologist Albert Zink of the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy told AFP.
Then, there s the matter of none other than Julius Caesar, who came to an untimely end in 44 B.C.E.-at the hands of his very own senators. History states:
Julius Caesar, the dictator for life of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as sixty noblemen, including Caesar s own prot g , Marcus Brutus. Caesar was scheduled to leave Rome to fight in a war on March 18 and had appointed loyal members of his army to rule the Empire in his absence. The Republican senators, already chafing at having to abide by Caesar s decrees, were particularly angry about the prospect of taking orders from Caesar s underlings. Cassius Longinus started the plot against the dictator, quickly getting his brother-in-law Marcus Brutus to join.
Caesar should have been well aware that many of the senators hated him, but he dismissed his security force not long before his assassination. Reportedly, Caesar was handed a warning note as he entered the senate meeting that day but did not read it. After he entered the hall, Caesar was surrounded by senators holding daggers. Servilius Casca struck the first blow, hitting Caesar in the neck and drawing blood. The other senators all joined in, stabbing him repeatedly about the head.
The saga of the secret society of the Gardu a is highly controversial for one specific reason: historians cannot agree on whether or not it really existed. The story goes that the group had its origins in Spain, and at some unspecified period in the Middle Ages, but probably at some point in the early 1400s in, or around, Toledo. The tale continues that the Gardu a was comprised of both former prisoners and escapees who engaged in just about any and all unlawful acts in exchange for money. Assassinations, burglaries, and the destruction of property were always high on the list. Reportedly, the Gardu a existed for more than four centuries-with the bulk of its activities undertaken during the Spanish Inquisition, which was established in 1478 and lasted until 1834.

One of the most infamous assassinations in all of history was that of Julius Caes