America and Russia both definetely employed assassins in the cold war, the American controllers being the HAC (Health Alteration Comitee), and the
Russians having the somewhat more mysterious yet not so humourously named Alpha Squad.
In the past 50 years 4000 notable assassinations have been commited, 40 of those being against heads of state. Clearly with a population worldwide of
approximately 6.6 billion, only fraction of a percentage are assassinated, and therefore it is not feasable for the government to employ assassins.
Indeed of all those assassinations, only 6.7% were definetely authorised by governments, with another possible 4.4% authorised by governments but it
is nto known either way in relation to these.
Also in relation to how assassinations are commited, 58.9% use guns, with a 63.3% success rate. The others are split, with the smallest number of
assassinations being commited by hand or missile, both only used 1.1 percent of the time.
In relation to becoming an assassin I would advise attempting to track down a copy of the illegal book, "Hit Man: A technical manual for the
independant contractor" by Rex Feral published in 1983 by Paladin Press, and described as "a step-by-step murder manual, a training book for
assassins" by the US Circuit Court of Appeals shortly before they banned it in 1999.
Additional reading that would be advisable in my opinion would be "How to kill" by Kris Hollington, and "Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth.
If anyone was to assassinate someone using these texts, I would just like to say I brought them up for intellctual reading and interest only, and
disagree with assassination on principle and am not condoning it any way.


