"These are instruments of death." "They are specially designed weapons used by intelligence agencies for one specific purpose: killing." "The vapor is shot out the end of the barrel." "When a person inhales the cyanide, death occurs very quickly." "This particular pistol was designed to be used in The 70's for what was then called Wet Affairs." "Assassinations." "Assassination." "It was used by intelligence agencies in time of war." "The weapon can be used for thrusting, either in the heart, into the throat or into the ear or the brain." "Assassins have learned to kill more efficiently using cutting edge technology." "The plate went through the side of the car." "It spun the car into the air and when it hit the ground..." "The instruments of death have pushed technology to the limits in what has become the Deadly Game." "Good evening, Double-Oh-Seven." "In the world of cinematic spies no one faces more formidable foes than Agent Double-Oh-Seven." "You expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond." "I expect you to die." "I'm sorry to go." "James Bond, the ultimate survivor, knows very well that there are many ways to kill." "Some of the methods are often unconventional, to say the least." "I think he got the point." "Like the fictional James Bond of Her Majesty's Secret Service, intelligence agencies also gave their spies a license to kill." "At certain times, in certain places, spies were assassins." "Somewhere in North America in the remote countryside, lives a man who was a real life Double-Oh-Seven." "For many years, Captain Peter Mason worked for British Intelligence as a professional assassin to Her Majesty's Government." "His unique career began in the closing months of World War II." "Spring, 1945." "The Allied sweep through German occupied Europe laid bare a litany of unspeakable horrors" "The brutality included crimes against Allied personnel captured by the Nazis." "Soldiers and secret agents tortured and left to die." "The cruelty galvanized some, like Winston Churchill, into vengeance." "Churchill, towards the end of the war, realized that the high echelon Nazis were the only ones to come to trial." "The real people that had committed the atrocities would never come to trial." "So he decided that the Special Service Unit would be formed from commandos, paratroopers and SAS people to hunt down the low echelon people and to bring them to justice in the only way that we had possible." "And the term used was "To convert to His Majesty's permanent custody."" "That was the term that was used." "In other words, assassination." "Peter Mason was a member of the first hunter team." "Code named Baker, the team reported to the SAS, a top secret group working with British Intelligence." "Its mission;" "to avenge Nazi atrocities against British personnel and secret agents." "The Germans were absolutely ruthless." "They were task masters at extracting confessions from people." "The way they handled SOE and OSS agents was really quite dreadful." "Beyond the point of extracting information, sadistic." "Mason was the Sergeant in Charge of a special three-man unit stationed in a small town in southwest Germany." "He and his men were all hand-picked for this assignment." "The qualifications that were necessary, of course, were expertise in firearms, the ability to take people out without being upset by it, to operate at close quarters and to have lots of initiative." "The Baker Team wore the Special Service insignia and the maroon berets of the Sixth Airborne Parachute Regiment and they were well armed." "My team was armed with Colt 45 automatic as a sidearm, the M1 carbine for use in vehicles, and if there was a possibility of a shoot-out," "with a Thompson submachine gun." "Bankrolled by a secret fund in the War Office, the Baker Team received its orders from headquarters in London." "The words "Termination Order"" "were stamped across the Nazi's personnel file." "In the final days of World War II, chaos reigned." "Hitler's army was on the run," "SS officers shed their uniforms and found safety hiding in the numerous refugee and prisoner of war camps throughout Germany." "The Baker Team scoured these camps for their targets." "When we picked up a Nazi and faced him with his identification, they just went to jelly." "For the mere fact that they'd been on the run, they thought they'd covered up their tracks." "The fact that they were faced with their file, their own personnel files with their photograph, their number, their family history, their relations, everything was on their file." "Usually, they would admit to who they were." "Then they would be read Hitler's Night and Fog Order which stated that" ""... any Allied personnel caught behind the lines, whether in uniform or not, were to be executed." "Even should these creatures, when discovered, show their readiness to surrender, they are on no account to be shown the slightest mercy."" "So the linguist in our unit or our group, would ask the Nazi "Do you understand this document?"" "They would say "Yes."" "After they were read the Riot Act, if that what's you could call it, we would take them off into the forest." "Two of the soldiers would grab them by the arms and a third soldier would take a pistol and one shot, dispatch him, shot to the back of the head." "For the actual termination we would choose to use a German issue weapon." "Not a British or an American weapon." "This is a P38, nine millimeter, standard German Army issue." "Or we would use the PO8, or Luger as it's commonly called." "After the subject was dispatched, we would put them into a body bag, complete with the pistol, zip the body bag up, put it in the back of our vehicle and drive to the nearest zone," "whether it was the American zone or whatever." "We would then declare that the subject had been shot while trying to escape or had committed suicide." "For its covert missions, the Baker Team drove a Tetra, a Czechoslovakian car that could comfortably seat six." "It's air-cooled 8-cylinder rear engine was capable of speeds of more than one hundred miles an hour." "The Tetra also had other special features." "This vehicle was unique in that it had a compartment beneath the floor of the back seats." "And this compartment was galvanized steel." "And in this compartment, we could conceal the body." "Between 1945 and 1946," "Peter Mason participated in sixteen successful missions." "Among them, the hunt for Otto Orkies, a Hitler youth who castrated two British secret agents." "He then hung them from telegraph poles and left them to bleed to death." "Mason and his men tracked Orkies to a hotel room in Munich where he was dealing on the Black Market." "Confronting him, they verified his identification." "So we frog-marched him out of the back door of the building, into the alleyway." "And he was executed." "We could not dispose of the body because we were too far from the British soil." "So we left the body there." "Not an unusual thing for that time in Germany." "Today, Peter Mason lives the quiet life." "A retired staff captain, he continued to work for British Intelligence for many years after the war." "It was a job that took him all over the world on missions so sensitive that even now they are still classified Top Secret." "Mason became a world renowned expert in the tools of his trade." "Assassination weapons." "Especially silenced ones." "This pistol is the PPK Walther made so popular in the James Bond series." "And strangely enough, its serial number is A007." "The problem with the silencer is that the barrel is usually threaded very finely, like forty threads to the inch." "And so you can't have had James Bond rushing to his pistol and pulling the silencer out of his pocket and cross-threading it on the movie set." "So I suggested to Ian Fleming when he asked me about special weapons, that instead of having the barrel threaded, that they had a tube that could take a blank cartridge which Bond could insert into the pistol like that." "The Delia Carbine was designed by British in 1943." "It is known as the mother of all silenced weapons." "The Delia was first used by the British marine commander." "He used to take out German sentries quietly during the war." "The weapon is accurate and produces no amount of flash even on a dark night." "There were very few truly silenced weapons." "Generally speaking, the silencers are far too small to accommodate the volume of gases." "The only truly successful silenced weapon was Delia Commander Carbine." "It used an adapted colt automatic magazine." "It was built on the frame of a 303 rifle." "The silenced proper is a two inch tube, twelve inch long." "The barrel has a series of holes toward the ridge, through which the gas exited." "The bullet exit, then it disposes gases cold in the first part of the chamber within it." "This is the most successful silenced weapon." "There really is no other efficient weapon unless it's based on this system." "The Dan Wesson is a silenced revolver based on the Delia design." "Silenced weapons are generally used for a hit in a crowded area." "This doesn't draw attention to the operator, and give the operator a chance to make this escape." "This particular pistol was designed to be used in the 70's for what was then called Wet Affairs assassinations." "The Dan Wesson was used by a Hiptine trying to assassinate the Uganda strongman Idi Amin in 197 1." "The assassin was Uganda national trained by British intelligence." "Although all attempts failed, the Hiptine once got close enough to take out his bodyguards." "Dan Wession is probably the only revolver that could be successfully silenced." "It has a barrel, adjustable." "You can adjust the gap between the back of the barrel and the front of the cylinder." "This is where the bang escapes on a revolver." "The KGB Draganoff sniper rifle." "For many years, it was covered by the wide stretch of unique qualities, like its infrared scope that would not be detected by another infrared or sniperscope." "During Vietnam War, the Soviet kept its soldiers and all Vietnamese well armed with their intelligence weapons." "Each 12 men squad included the sniper with a KGB Draganoff rifle." "This rifle was developed by a Russian for special operations." "The CIA were interested." "And for about ten years, they were offering a very large reward for any that could be brought out to the Unitd States." "It's 7.62 caliber and it was used for taking out snipers or officers with a distance of a thousand yards." "For Peter Mason, assassination was used for retribution." "His weapons were simple and efficient, but far from subtle." "Assassins for the KGB on the other hand, needed more sophisticated weapons." "Weapons that did not leave a trace." "Moscow." "The Kremlin." "The very term means fortress, protection against enemies, enemies of the Czar." "And under Communism, enemies of the State." "October, 191 7." "In a bloody revolution," "Vladimir Ilich Lenin and the Bolsheviks deposed Tzar Nicholas and established a Communist State." "Lenin chose a trusted intellectual, Feliks Dzerzhinsky, to establish the Cheka, forerunner to the KGB, to eliminate counterrevolutionary activity and enemies of the State." "Dzerzhinsky was so good and was so skilled, that he began to develop a security apparatus that surrounded Lenin in the early government." "It became the sword and shield of the Soviet Union." "When they acted, they acted mercilessly and they consolidated power and held onto it." "Dzerzhinsky boasted that twenty-four hours was all the time he need to arrest, try and execute a suspect." "Stalin's Secret Police often used a revolver called a Egant." "By 1925, the Cheka had executed more than two hundred and fifty thousand people." "So many that machine guns were issued to replace pistols as the instrument of execution." "After the death of Lenin," "Joseph Stalin, a former terrorist and bank robber, seized control of the government." "Stalin used the Secret Police, renamed the NKVD, to tighten his grip on the Soviet people." "Stalin was the ultimate survivor." "He knew that every person in his regime could be expendable and the best way to keep people loyal to him was absolute terror." "In the purges of the late 1930's," "Joseph Stalin and his Secret Police, the NKVD, arrested and tried nineteen million people." "At least seven million were shot or died in gulags." "After eliminating enemies within the Soviet Union," "Stalin pursued enemies of the State living abroad." "At the top of Stalin's list his arch rival, Leon Trotsky." "For twelve years, Trotsky lived in exile, on the run from the NKVD." "Mexico City." "Trotsky finally found refuge living in a heavily defended villa." "But Stalin's Secret Police found Trotsky and developed an elaborate plot to assassinate him." "The assassin, Ramon Mercader, code named Lopez, penetrated Trotsky's inner circle and gained his trust." "On August the 20th, 1940," "Mercader arrived at the villa with a manuscript Trotsky had agreed to read." "As Trotsky read the manuscript at his desk," "Mercader struck, plunging an ice ax into Trotsky's skull." "But just before he struck the blow he accidentally turned the head and rather than striking Trotsky's head with the pointed end, he struck it with the blunt end." "And for that reason, Trotsky did not die instantly, was able to cry out for help and his bodyguards were summoned to Trotsky." "Mercader was arrested immediately after the crime and taken into custody." "Leon Trotsky died in the hospital the next day." "His assassin, Ramon Mercader, was convicted of murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison." "The crude, clumsy assassination embarrassed Stalin." "The NKVD, and later the KGB, needed to devise new methods to kill without leaving a trace." "A secret laboratory inside the KGB known as the Camera, began experimenting with drugs and poisons." "In the 1950's, it developed a cyanide spray gun." "And its principle was to take a cylindrical tube." "In there is a small cartridge that has no bullet." "In front of that is a vial of prussic acid." "When it is impacted, it vaporizes very quickly." "The vapor is shot out the end of the barrel." "When a person inhales the cyanide, death occurs very quickly." "KGB assassin, Beldon Stachinsky, used this weapon to assassinate two enemies of the State;" "Ukrainian nationalists living in Munich, West Germany." "Each time the modus operandi was the same." "Stachinsky waited alone at a darkened stairwell, holding the cyanide spray gun in a rolled up newspaper." "As the victim entered the stairwell," "Stachinsky sprayed him in the face with a cloud of poisonous gas." "There was no evidence of murder." "A nearly perfect crime." "Death was attributed to heart failure." "The KGB developed an untraceable weapon, but it overlooked the human factor." "Wracked with guilt, the assassin, Beldon Stachinsky, defected to the West and publicly confessed his crimes." "Once again, the KGB was exposed." "Following the Stachinsky affair, the KGB prohibited assassinations against enemies of the State outside the Soviet Bloc." "But, in 1978, the Bulgarian Secret Service asked the KGB to assassinate a dissident living in London." "The intended victim was Georgi Markov, a popular Bulgarian writer and anti-Communist." "In a weekly broadcast on Radio Free Europe from the BBC's Bush House," "Markov bitterly criticized the Communist regime of Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov." "Zhivkov considered Markov a traitor who had to be eliminated." "The chairman of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, wanted no part of it." "When Andropov heard this, it was conveyed by Soviet Intelligence people, he was in no mood to comply." "He said "I do not find it necessary to get involved in political assassination." "It's a political assassination."" "But Vladimir Kriuchkov, the head of Foreign Intelligence, insisted saying that the Bulgarians would not understand the KGB's refusal to cooperate." "Andropov said "Okay, okay." "I, I'll play along but only in technical assistance."" "He said "Provide the Bulgarians with the weapons and give them instructions how to use these weapons." "No more." "That's all."" "The KGB provided the Bulgarians with an ingenious weapon disguised as an umbrella." "It worked on the same principle as this cane developed earlier by the KGB." "The key point is when you would press the cane into someone, this would twist and this sharp pointed needle would come out and would actually penetrate the person's clothing." "London, September the 1 0th, 1978." "Georgi Markov had just completed a radio broadcast from BBC's Bush House." "He walked briskly across the Waterloo Bridge, heading for his car parked on the other side." "Suddenly, a man with an umbrella stumbled into him." "Markov felt a slight sting as the umbrella jabbed into his right leg." "The man apologized, then quickly got into a passing taxi and disappeared." "Within hours, Markov developed a high fever." "He was taken by ambulance to Saint James Hospital." "Markov was able to describe to nurses what happened, then slipped into a coma." "He died the next day." "At Scotland Yard's Forensic Laboratory, the chief scientist examined a tiny metal object that had been lodged in Markov's leg." "Four holes had been drilled into the pellet." "Forensic experts were convinced that it contained a lethal poison." "This is the pellet photographed next to the head of a pin." "Scotland Yard technicians used a high powered scanning electron microscope." "They discovered that the pellet was made of a rare platinum iridium alloy that the human body does not reject." "The mystery deepened." "What kind of poison could be so lethal?" "Investigators turned to experts at one of the most secret places in Britain:" "the Chemical Biological Warfare Establishment." "After a series of sophisticated tests, they determined that it was an unusual toxin." "So unusual that toxicologists had never seen it before." "The poison was a lethal derivative of Ricin." "Ricin is a derivative of the castor bean and is one of the most poisonous substances known to mankind." "It kills in such minute quantities, it's only necessary to have a weapon capable, basically, of puncturing the skin and introducing a microscopic sample of the poison" "One tiny crystal of Ricin in the vial on the left was enough to kill Markov." "Seventy times as much cyanide on the right would have been needed." "The pellet was sugar coated to keep the poison in and insure that it had entered his bloodstream." "Georgi Markov was a defector who could not escape his past." "The Bulgarian Secret Service, with help from its KGB masters, had eliminated another enemy of the State." "There was public outrage over the Georgi Markov murder and suspicions that the Soviets were behind it." "In reaction, the KGB abandoned the policy of assassinating enemies of the State." "This time, with no exceptions." "But it still maintained its secret laboratory; the Camera, just in case." "The modern era of clandestine warfare was born in the Second World War." "Following Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services." "Its mission: sabotage, covert operations behind enemy lines, and assassination." "In short, dirty tricks with no holds barred." "To head the fledgling agency," "President Roosevelt chose William J. Donovan, nicknamed Wild Bill for his courageous exploits in World War I." "Wild Bill Donovan was a larger than life character with charm, panache, courage, and a vision." "The OSS, which became 13,000 strong was America's first spy agency." "Its ranks included bluebloods, millionaires, safe crackers, forgers and ex-cops." "It was called Oh-So-Secret by admirers." "Oh-So-Social by critics." "Donovan lured Professor Stanley Lovell away from MIT as chief toymaker for the OSS." "Lovell tells his staff" ""Throw all your normal law abiding concepts out the window." "Here's a chance to raise merry Hell."" "During World War II, there was a great deal of innovation." "The OSS worked with British Intelligence to develop several all-in-one killing weapons." "One of the ones I find most interesting is the Pesket close combat weapon." "And it combined three means of killing." "Number one, all metal, heavyweighted on top, effectively as a kosh." "Second point, it was a poniard dagger." "You could stab someone." "And third, if they were still alive, you could take this lanyard, pull it out and it would become a garrote for strangling." "A more simple killing device, the push dagger, allowed personnel using it to exert tremendous force at close range." "The round blade penetrated clothing and body tissue." "The OSS weapons designers saw a need to allow members of the OSS in occupied countries to attack German sentries from the rear." "And they took the idea of a smashing hatchet and they combined the two words to create a smatchet." "Now knowing the Germans always wore the low metal helmets, they thought a weapon would be needed that would be large and massive, that it would give psychological confidence to the bearer, but there would be enough weight so" "that if the operative struck the German sentry from the rear, and if the blade happened to catch the helmet, there was enough mass that the blow could be carried through to kill the sentry." "The new recruits also learned techniques of escape and evasion behind enemy lines." "It was often desirable to have a means of escaping if you were captured." "And how better than to conceal a small weapon than a pack of cigarettes?" "This cigarette appears ordinary." "But if you notice the tiny string coming out of the rear." "This is the means by which you fire it." "You grasp this in your teeth and pull forward." "You'd actually fire a small, four millimeter projectile." "Now it would be lethal between two and three feet away." "But the greatest damage it would do would, it would make a blinding noise and a flash and hopefully give you an opportunity to escape." "James Bond often resorted to extreme measures to escape his pursuers." "But so did the OSS." "This special parachute harness was developed for getting secret agents out of enemy territory quickly." "There is no evidence that it was actually used." "They learned the art of demolition and sabotage." "The OSS developed a clever array of special devices to destroy Hitler's supply lines by attacking the German railway system." "Plastic explosives, developed by the British, were widely used by the OSS." "The material could be molded to fit in a crevice or underneath a locomotive." "The OSS also needed a sabotage device that was easier to conceal under railroad tracks." "And what they came up with was this special pressure switch." "When the train passed over, this feeler would be the only thing that would be exposed." "Everything else would be buried." "And the weight of the train coming over would depress this." "Once that happened, it releases an igniter, there's a fuse going from here and it triggers the explosion." "To attack enemy ships in harbors, the OSS developed the Sleeping Beauty." "A one-man motorized submarine." "The pilot wore a waterproof protective suit and breathed through a device designed to minimize bubbles and avoid detection." "The pilot would maneuver the submarine close enough to the ship to attach a limpet mine." "An explosive device held in place by powerful magnets." "Toward the end of the war, the OSS developed a weapon to kill quietly without risking close combat." "The OSS needed a silent, flashless killing weapon." "One idea that they had and developed, was to take a weapon that they already had, such as the forty-five caliber Colt pistol." "And modifying the pistol in a way that it would still function as a weapon but it could be used to project a dart." "Now this dart is a unique design." "It has a piston inside that's powered by a thirty-two caliber primer cartridge." "Once it was fired from within the forty-five caliber pistol, the cartridge would leap to the back, it would force the dart forward." "The fins would stabilize and you had an aerodynamically stable weapon." "This is called the Captive Piston Concept and it worked." "When it was loaded into the forty-five pistol, it did produce a silent, flashless killing weapon." "The OSS distinguished itself in nearly every theater of war." "In North Africa during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion in 1942, in Yugoslavia working with partisans and rescuing downed Allied flyers." "In France, the OSS organized and supplied the French Resistance prior to the D-Day landings at Normandy." "In Burma, Detachment 1 01 trained Kachin warriors to fight the Japanese." "They killed more than five thousand enemy soldiers." "At the end of World War II, President Truman disbanded the OSS, but its legacy would live on." "Two years later, the Central Intelligence Agency was formed and modeled after the OSS." "Four future directors of the CIA would be OSS veterans." "Allan Dulles, Richard Holmes, William Colby and William Casey." "The OSS's fascination with covert operations and clandestine warfare would shape the CIA for years to come." "Sometimes with disastrous results." "At the height of the Cold War in the 1960's, the CIA was deeply involved in the business of assassination." "But unlike the KGB, the CIA attempted, unsuccessfully, to use it to eliminate foreign dictators." "At the CIA, Richard Bissell was in charge of clandestine operations." "A great believer in plausible deniability," "Bissell never used the word assassinate." "Instead, he coined the phrase "Executive Action"." "In 1960, the CIA's greatest concern was Fidel Castro." "The Cuban president was threatening to join the Soviet Bloc." "Castro became a target of Bissell's Executive Action." "For technical help, Bissell turned to a secret division, the TSD." "The division within the CIA that created assassination weapons and devices during the 1960's was called TSD," "Technical Services Department." "And they were charged with the development of these special weapons and devices that were slated to be used against Fidel Castro." "The CIA's Technical Services Division worked closely with the Army's Biological Warfare Lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland." "It developed a frightening array of lethal biological agents and poisonous toxins like anthrax, tuberculosis, rabbit fever, smallpox, undulant fever, botulism, and a shellfish toxin so deadly that there was no antidote for it." "The greatest challenge was to design weapons or devices to inject the poisons into intended victims." "In 1978, CIA Director William Colby described one of the devices to the Senate Intelligence Committee." "It was a high tech poison dart gun." "The round thing at the top is obviously the sight." "The rest of it is what is practically a normal forty-five." "And however, it works by electricity." "There's a battery in the handle and it fires a small dart." "So that when it fires, it fires silently?" "Almost silently, yes." "Does the target know that he's been hit and about to die?" "That depends, Mr. Chairman, on the particular dart used." "A special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception." "Without perception?" "Right." "But also, the toxin itself would not appear in the autopsy?" "Yes." "So that there was no, no way of perceiving that the target was hit." "The Senate Intelligence Committee documented eight attempts to kill Castro." "During the 1960's, the CIA made several attempts." "They were probably described more for their ingenuity and cleverness than they were for their effectiveness, because, of course, none were successful." "September, 1960." "Castro arrived in New York to attend the opening session of the UN General Assembly." "His new patron, Soviet Premiere Nikita Kruschev, embraced him with a highly symbolic Russian bear hug." "As the UN drama played out, a few blocks away, a deadly plot unfolded." "At New York's Plaza Hotel a high ranking CIA official met with a gangster named Sam Gold." "Sam Gold was actually Sam Giancana, the boss of the Chicago Mafia and heir to Al Capone's empire." "Giancana said he had contacts in Cuba who could arrange to eliminate Castro." "Miami, Florida." "Later that month at the Fontainebleu hotel, Giancana introduced the CIA official to Santos Traficante." "Traficante, head of the Florida Mafia, had run the gambling casinos in Havana before Castro shut them down." "He wanted to get even." "The CIA envisioned a typical gangland style killing in which Castro would be gunned down." "But the Mafia had other ideas." "Castro's security was airtight." "An ambush would be too risky." "Giancana insisted that the CIA develop a poison that could be put in Castro's food or drink" "The CIA's Technical Services Division developed pills that contained a deadly botulism toxin." "The pills would dissolve in water." "Botulism toxin has the ability to penetrate the skin like nerve gas." "It is a virulent poison that produces a fatal illness within hours after exposure." "The pills were then passed to the Mafia agent in Havana, a disillusioned government official." "But the Mafia agent was unable to get near Castro and according to the gangsters, got cold feet." "So, the CIA again turned to its Technical Services Division." "Some of the ideas were somewhat whimsical." "They were going to spray him with hallucinogenic drugs while he was making a broadcast to the Cuban people, in an attempt to come up with an erratic behavior." "A more lethal idea was to impregnate his cigar with a deadly botulism toxin that would make Castro fatally ill within hours." "The CIA contaminated a box of Castro's favorite brand of cigars, but were unable to get them to the dictator." "The closest the CIA came to actually killing Castro was in March 1963 at the Havana Libre Hotel." "The CIA had learned that Castro often went to the cafeteria of the hotel to order a chocolate milkshake." "A waiter who worked in the restaurant was given the poison pills and instructed to mix the poison into Castro's milkshake." "He stored the capsules in the restaurant's freezer and waited for Castro to show up." "By the time Castro arrived, the pills were frozen." "When the waiter tried to pry them loose, they broke and the poison spilled." "The CIA would never again get so close to Castro." "November 1963, Paris." "The CIA had terminated the relationship with Mafia and turned to a disenchanted Castro official who would assassinate the dictator." "The afternoon in November 22, 1963, in an apartment used for clandestine meetings, a high level CIA officer met with major Olando Cubaya, code named ambush." "He was given the assassination device developed by CIA Technical Services Division." "The device was a ball point pen that contained a hypodermic syringe." "The needle was so fine that the victim would hardly feel it when it was inserted." "The poison called blackmeat 40, was a nicotine based insecticide fatal to humans." "In a tragically ironic twist, the meeting in Paris to plan Castro's assassination was cut short by President Kennedy's own assassination." "The CIA agent in Paris immediately cancelled the operation" "Since the 1960's and early 70's, the CIA has not engaged in such sinister activities and today, strongly disavows assassination as an instrument of policy." "Despite publicly rejecting assassination, the CIA and other intelligence agencies still find themselves involved in the assassination business." "This time, on the other side as counterterrorists, trying to prevent assassination." "Terrorist groups do more than just blow up airplanes and sabotage buildings." "They often kidnap and assassinate." "Intelligence agencies in the Post Cold War period must deploy their resources to identify and track these groups." "The CIA also trains counterterrorist teams for friendly foreign governments." "It provides special equipment, advisors and shares vital intelligence." "It all paid off on April the 22nd, 1997." "Lima, Peru." "At 3: 1 7 PM, a huge underground explosion rocked the Japanese embassy." "Moments later, exploding gunfire as one hundred and forty commandos stormed the building ending four months of terror for the seventy-two hostages held by Marxist rebels." "The commandos killed all fourteen terrorists, including some who were trying to surrender." "To wage the war against terrorism in today's world, intelligence officers have learned to fight the enemy on its own terms." "The line between counterterrorism and assassination has become blurred." "It is the proactive method of going after them in their own home court." "It is preemptive strikes." "It is surgically removing them." "Execute, execute, execute." "Intelligence officers and SWAT teams from all over the world come here to learn the latest counterterrorism techniques." "This training facility in rural Virginia is run by a private company," "ITI." "It has a shoot house designed for live fire training." "Our shoot house allows you to train and practice such things as rescuing a hostage who's being held in a room, in a building, in a house." "It allows you to practice breaching of doors." "The tactical situation is going to decide whether you're going to hit the front or the rear of that blocking vehicle." "It doesn't matter." "Go for one or the other." "Evasive driving techniques are used to escape from an assassination or kidnap attempt." "There's an interesting statistic out:" "no American has died after they have moved from the attack site." "And that's the primary evasive maneuver we teach." "Just move the car." "Get off of the X, move the vehicle." "If you haven't died immediately, then you're going to live afterwards." "As James Bond knows, a specially designed car can make all the difference in surviving an enemy attack" "His Aston Martin not only deflects bullets, but has an arsenal of devious devices and weapons to use against his pursuers." "An armored car does one thing very, very simply; it buys you time." "And oftentimes, the difference between living and dying is three or four seconds." "This armored car is custom designed by a private company for international executives, diplomats and heads of state." "Although it looks like an ordinary Suburban, its features are extraordinary." "Bulletproof windows, three inches thick" "Three thousand pounds of armor plating." "Blast protection system, remote starter with bomb scan." "Oil spray system, gun ports with weapons storage." "Blow-out proof tires." "Global Positioning System, tear gas launchers and an anti-explosive fuel tank" "Level four armor is constructed to prevent bullets, such as AK-47 fire, from entering your vehicle." "It gives you time to move off of that spot and to get away." "But not even level four armor could prevent the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen," "Chairman of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany." "One of the most powerful men in Europe," "Alfred Herrhausen was targeted by the extreme left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction, who saw him as a symbol of capitalism." "The terrorists were so bold that they warned Herrhausen he would be assassinated on a certain date." "At the time of the attack, he had a thirty man protective detail and three Mercedes, heavily armored with rifles." "Gerry Smith of ITI, travels all over the world to study terrorist attacks and assassinations." "To analyze points of vulnerability and to develop countermeasures." "His students are from law enforcement and the CIA." "Here's the way the attack occurred." "This was his home in Bad Hamberg and each day the protective detail would roll in." "They would back in here with the limo to pick him up." "He'd come out the side door set down in the right rear seat of the limo." "The follow car would be setting here and the lead carjust around the corner." "Now he's going to go this direction for six blocks down through here, he's going through a residential area." "Then six blocks later, he's going through a park" "As he's going through the park Here's the way it looked." "He's traveling down this street." "When his car got to this position, this is where they killed him." "Motorcade has come down the hill this direction." "You'll notice there's a couple of posts missing from the street here." "The bad guys, the terrorists, the Red Army Faction, had chained up a child's bicycle to one of these posts." "On the luggage rack of the bicycle was a satchel containing twenty-two pounds of TNT." "Aimed out the side of the satchel toward his car, is a copper plate about a quarter inch thick, about a five pound copper plate." "And all this explosive on the back of the copper plate, aimed out toward his vehicle." "As the motorcade came by, they did it." "You'll notice that there's a line across the sidewalk right here." "About thirty days prior to the attack, the terrorists dug up the sidewalk, buried a cable eighty-six meters out into the park" "And this particular day, there's a guy standing down the path here with the trigger." "He waited for the lead car to come by." "There, the lead car is gone." "Then, prior to the limo getting there, he pushed the button." "When he pushed the button he turned on the infrared light beam to a reflector clamped to a post on the other side, like a Radio Shack, bing bing, you walk through the light beam." "He turned on the light beam in front of the second car." "Now you know what's going to happen when this car breaks that light beam." "This plate goes through the side of the car and that's exactly what happened." "First time anywhere in the world that we saw the light beam used as a trigger for a roadside bomb." "The way a platter charge works, you put a bunch of explosives on the back of a metal plate." "When you detonate the explosives, the plate is pushed away from the blast at seventy-five percent of the speed of the burning of the explosive material." "Now TNT burns at nineteen thousand feet per second." "This plate approached his car at fourteen thousand two hundred feet per second." "The first time we've ever seen an attack setup that the speed of the car made no difference." "Generally the bad guy misses by being early or late on the trigger." "The light beam took care of all of that." "You end up triggering your own bomb." "The plate went through the side of the car and this is a fifty-eight hundred pound car." "It spun the car in the air and when it hit the ground, this is the way it looked." "One of the armor plates broke loose and cut his femoral artery and he actually bled to death." "That was the official cause of death." "In the attack, only Alfred Herrhausen died." "It was a surgical strike so precise that the terrorists breached into a thirty man security detail and killed just the intended victim." "The Herrhausen attack on 30 November 1989, was, in, in our line of work, the wake-up call." "When you see a person assassinated with the level of security that existed on him at that time, and they still were able to successfully assassinate him, that was the wake-up call." "That was where we all decided we need to change our training techniques to counter that kind of an attack" "Extreme measures are needed to counter assassins using sophisticated technology to kill." "Throughout the 20th Century, the instruments of death have mirrored the technology of the times." "The race to develop more efficient weapons has triggered a vicious cycle of violence in a deadly game." "A game with no winners."