Officials: CIA program based on Israeli hit squads
Update: Officials tell Newsweek model was Israeli hit squads, Cheney’s involvement may be most ‘politically explosive aspect’; GOP senator wants program resurrected
The goal of the CIA hit squads created by a now canceled secret program was to put ‘bullets in heads,’ an unnamed former intel official tells the Wall Street Journal.
“A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative axed by Director Leon Panetta examined how to assassinate members of al Qaeda with hit teams on the ground, according to current and former national-security officials familiar with the matter,” Siobhan Gordon reports. “The goal was to assemble teams of CIA and special-operations forces ‘and put bullets in [the al Qaeda leaders'] heads,’ one former intelligence official said.”
Gordon adds, “The plan was never carried out, and Mr. Panetta canceled the effort on the day he learned of it, June 23. The next day, he alerted Congress, which didn’t know about the plan.”
The New York Times reports that the “plans remained vague and were never carried out.”
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