Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, From Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace; H. Keith Melton; Henry R. Schlesinger; George J. Tenet

Author:Robert Wallace; H. Keith Melton; Henry R. Schlesinger; George J. Tenet
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Technology, Espionage, American History, History
ISBN: 9780525949800
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2008-01-01T15:00:00+00:00

The CIA’s other solution to the Castro problem drew TSD into the ultimately objectionable policy of sanctioned assassination. Both TSD’s chemistry branch and its explosive devices branch had the expertise to create lethal materials and delivery mechanisms. TSS had previously developed poisons as part of the U-2 program in the mid-1950s and impregnated needles for pilots to carry as an alternative to capture and torture. The so-called suicide needle was created by the devices branch of the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps at Fort Detrick Maryland, a military research organization with whom the CIA, through TSD, worked closely. The poison on the needle was saxitoxin, a naturally occurring toxin found in contaminated shellfish and one of the most lethal substances known.43

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