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SECRET TECHNIQUES OF THE CIA G-FORCE ASSASSIN'S INSTRUCTION MANUAL Mike Delaney

Before the action in ONE FALSE MOVE or the full-length thriller THE IMMORTALITY PLOT (revised edition to be launched later this year), Major Mike Delaney was seconded from the ultra-secret U.S assassination squad known as G-Force to the Hong Kong Police Force.

This dossier, sections of which are redacted, records the techniques, skills, and weapons used by members of the elite G-Force squad.

DOSSIER – RESTRICTED ACCESS

OPERATIVE: MICHAEL XAVIER DELANEY

DEPARTMENT: G-Force (this title not to appear in any form outside of this document).

CODENAME: REDACTED

Dateline: January 2000

INTERNAL RESOURCE: See separate Security Classification And Analysis of Operative including psychological, physical, religious and cultural assessments and estimated degree of loyalty to the Department.

RECRUITMENT DATE: February 2000

ROLE OF AN ASSASSIN

Assassination is a term thought to be derived from "Hashish", a drug similar to marijuana, said to have been used by Hasan-ibn-Sabah to induce motivation in his followers, who were assigned to carry out political and other murders, usually at the cost of their lives.

It is here used to describe the planned killing of a person who is not under the legal jurisdiction of the killer, who is not physically in the hands of the killer, who has been selected by a resistance organization for death, and whose death provides positive advantages to that organization.

EMPLOYMENT

Assassination is an extreme measure not normally used in clandestine operations. It should be assumed that it will never be ordered or authorized by any U.S. Headquarters, though the latter may in rare instances agree to its execution by members of an associated foreign service. This reticence is partly due to the necessity for committing communications to paper. No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded. Consequently, the decision to employ this technique must nearly always be reached in the field, in the area where the action will take place. Decision and instructions should be confined to an absolute minimum of persons. Ideally, only one person will be involved. No report may be made, but usually, the act will be properly covered by normal news services, whose output is available to all concerned.

JUSTIFICATION

Murder is not morally justifiable. Self-defense may be argued if the victim has knowledge that may destroy the resistance organization if divulged. Assassination of persons responsible for atrocities or reprisals may be regarded as just punishment. Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is a clear and present danger to the cause of freedom may be held necessary.

But assassination can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it.

CLASSIFICATIONS

The techniques employed will vary according to whether the subject is unaware of his danger, aware but unguarded, or guarded. They will also be affected by whether or not the assassin is to be killed with the subject. Hereafter, assassinations in which the subject is unaware will be termed "simple"; those where the subject is aware but unguarded will be termed "chase"; those where the victim is guarded will be termed "guarded."

If the assassin is to die with the subject, the act will be called "lost." If the assassin is to escape, the adjective will be "safe." It should be noted that no compromises should exist here. The assassin must not fall alive into enemy hands.

A further type division is caused by the need to conceal the fact that the subject was actually the victim of assassination, rather than an accident or natural causes. If such concealment is desirable the operation will be called "secret"; if concealment is immaterial, the act will be called "open"; while if the assassination requires publicity to be effective it will be termed "terroristic."