Our Government has more Assassins in the various Departments than we have Doctors in America.

Remember back pre 9-11? None of our separate Federal Agencies wanted to even work together and fought each other for turf. Agency X might have information on Mr. M but they wouldn't share that information with any other agency...they all had their separate goals and objectives.

They TRIED to control the mafia's with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security...but the mafia's don't want to work together. They wouldn't want to divulge why Mr. Y is being targeted as then they would have to justify it to all the other Agencies....personal vendettas/Corporate influence/Drug Cartel requested missions would be found out.

It's a dysfunctional family that doesn't want to be together. David Manning was likely set up to make it look like he divulged State Department cables that DOD had access to. His set up can get the State Department to cease sharing data with the Pentagon.

The baddest Assassins we had is Naval Special Projects. They assassinate COUNTRIES. Everyone else wishes they had the tools those boys deploy. Well almost. The Air Force's Directed Energy platforms take the work out of killing and all you have to do now is point and click with the power of GOD. They aren't the only Federal Agency who wanted that power...and they aren't the only entity who has platforms in Space now capable of doing it.

All of the Federal Agencies spy on each other, they even target each other in the annual fight for Federal Appropriations/ Federal Contract funds/ drug kingpin take downs to horde the cash collected.....

It's a dysfunctional family of killers. If they all pulled in their clandestine obtained funds which they've invested in countries around the world...the entire Global Economy would collapse and everyone would be in the stone age.

Everyone fears a rising China...but China only rose because we poured our money into it. I'm sure our FED have a list of people to kill in top positions over there on the very day they pulled all their money out...bam entire SuperPower of China collapses. But you better believe China has a similar list...they played the same game we did putting money around the world...they also are ready to Assassinate Countries.

This point in Earth history is going to be very interesting to watch unfold. We'll see if the Dragon plays dirty.

There's a reason their military top brass has been saying for years they want to Nuke US cities. We play dirty.

My father is retired Special Forces. Many years ago, he took part in Operation Phoenix which was an assassination program. They worked closely with CIA. Doesn't take a stretch to realize that our government has had various assassination programs running for many decades. Why should now be any different?

I'm sure there is some type of marine sniper program in existence, what else would a sniper be used for if not an assassination?

Central Intellligence employees are gatherers of intelligence. For any given intelligence bud, there will be checks and cross-checks to serve two purposes - to evaluate the accuracy of each agent working on his own - unaware of the second/third agent/s, and to ensure that the intelligence gathered from two/three sources cross check.

Are agents trained to perform/identify certain elements of deadly force? Of course, but that's not what CIA agents are hired to do.

They are limited in number, intelligent by nature, and have specific tasks.

There would be no need for agents to perform "hits."

This is complicated, but a computer program will provide the most logical and efficient method of requiring a target to assume ambient temperature.

With intelligence, dossiers, and agents in place all over the world, it's easy enough to "enable" someone who is already bent in their hatred for this person/group to fulfill the desire they already have.

If you have target A that needs to be eliminated, you run the program. It points out that B, C, D, and E all hate this SOB and would like to find him to kill him.

So an agent can provide specific information in an inadvertent manner. "I'm pissed as this jerk I used to know back in XXXX just popped in on me and hit me up for money. Not like I have it to spare, but this guy gives me the creeps."

"Who is this?"

"XXXXXX XXXXX. I think he's hiding out from someone. He's always been a jerk and I hate him myself."

You let the information come out where the guy is. They'll take care of the rest.

No agency connection at all. If you're smart, you don't need bloody hands.

Originally posted by SegoMyEggo
Is there such thing as Government Assassins, like Jason Bourne in the movies?
im sure people say there is and some say there isnt
but does anyone know anything about this?
If so, what are age limits/requirements or links?

I used to know a guy that swore he was one. A little kooky in some ways, but never got the sense he was lying about that. And no, I am not gullible. Rather, got the idea that his problems stemmed from things he'd done. This was WAY back, like 1982.