Executive Action operation
also: Executive Action capability, Executive Action concept, Executive Action project
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William Harvey headed
Executive Action documented
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“The capability was called Executive Action and was later included under the cryptonym ZR/RIFLE…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.97
McGeorge Bundy met_with
Executive Action documented
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“He said that he had heard about "Executive Action * * * some time in the early months of 1961…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.171
CIA funded
Executive Action documented
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“Executive Action was a CIA euphemism defined as a project for research into developing means for overthrowing foreign political leaders including a 'capability to perform assassinations.'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.196
Trump administration proposed
Executive Action reported
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“Harvey testified that Bissell had told him that 'the White House had twice urged the creation of such a capability'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.196
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Executive Action reported
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“Bissell also said that as far as he knew it was true that he was asked by the White House to create a general stand-by assassination capability…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.198
Fitzgerald Bissell proposed
Executive Action reported
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“Bissell testified that when he and Bundy were discussing Executive Action he 'might have spoken of 'Castro as a possible victim'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.333
CIA funded
Executive Action documented
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“Thus we have yet another example of the CIA's planning in Trujillo Lumumba and Castro blended together along with Executive Action in a common web of perceived authority…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.333