The CIA has a long history of helping to kill leaders around the world
US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders, but was forced to cut back after a Senate investigation in the 1970s
Ewen MacAskill
Friday 5 May 2017 11.43 EDT
Some of the most notorious of the CIAs operations to kill world leaders were those targeting the late Cuban president, Fidel Castro. Attempts ranged from snipers to imaginative plots worthy of spy movie fantasies, such as the famous exploding cigars and a poison-lined scuba-diving suit.
But although the CIA attempts proved fruitless in the case of Castro, the US intelligence agency has since 1945 succeeded in deposing or killing a string of leaders elsewhere around the world either directly or, more often, using sympathetic local military, locally hired criminals or pliant dissidents.
According to North Koreas ministry of state security, the CIA has not abandoned its old ways. In a statement on Friday, it accused that the CIA and South Koreas intelligence service of being behind an alleged recent an assassination attempt on its leader Kim Jong-un.
The attempt, according to the ministry, involved the use of biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance and the advantage of this was it does not require access to the target (as) their lethal results will appear after six or 12 months.
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