Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations
Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations
Nigel West
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Names: West, Nigel, author.
Title: Encyclopedia of political assassinations / Nigel West.
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017008428 (print) | LCCN 2017025586 (ebook) | ISBN 9781538102398 (electronic) | ISBN 9781538102381 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: AssassinationHistory. | Political crimes and offensesHistory.
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The important thing to know about an assassination,
or an attempted assassination, is not who fired the
shot, but who paid for the bullet.
Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios
Acknowledgments
The author is indebted to Gary Kern, author of A Death in Washington, and to the many other members of the intelligence community who kindly assisted his research.
Abbreviations and Glossary
AGM/S | Arbeitsgruppe des Ministers/Sondereinheiten |
ANE | Accin Nacional Espanola |
ANP | American Nazi Party |
ANSESAL | Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Salvadorena |
AQ | al-Qaida |
ARM | Animal Rights Militia |
ASIO | Australian Security Intelligence Organisation |
ATE | Anti-Terrismo ETA |
ATF | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives |
AVH | llamvdlmi Hatsg (Hungary) |
AVO | llamrendrsg llamvdelmi Osztlya (Hungary) |
AVSECOM | Aviation Security Command |
BAOR | British Army of the Rhine |
BCRA | Bureau Centrale de Renseignemeents et dAction |
BE | Batalin Vascol Eapanol |
BfV | Bundesamt frr Verfassungsschutz |
BND | Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Germany) |
BPP | Black Panther Party |
CESID | Spanish intelligence service |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CICI | Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq |
CIS | Combined Intelligence Service |
CNI | Centro Nacional de Informacin |
COS | chief of station |
CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
CPUSA | Communist Party of the United States of America |
DCI | director of central intelligence |
DDI | Deputy Directorate of Intelligence |
DDO | Deputy Directorate of Operations |
DDP | deputy director for plans |
DGI | Direccion General de Inteligencia (Cuba) |
DGSE | Direction-Generale de la Securite Exterieure |
DI | Directorate of Intelligence |
DIB | Delhi Intelligence Bureau |
DIE | Direcia Informaii Extierne |
DIGOS | Divisione Investigazioni Generali e Operazioni Speciali (Italy) |
DINA | Direccin de Inteligencia Nacional (Chile) |
DIS | Defence Intelligence Staff |
DO | Directorate of Operations |
DS | Darzhavna Sigurnost |
DST | Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire |
EAM | National Liberation Front |
ELAS | Greek Peoples Liberation Army |
EO | executive order |
EOKA | Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (Crete) |
ETA | Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque separatists) |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FIA | Federal Investigation Agency (Pakistan) |
FLN | Front de Libration Nationale |
FNU | first name unknown |
FSB | Federal Security Service |
G-2 | Lebanese military intelligence service |
GAL | Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberacion |
GDR | German Democratic Republic |
GIGN | Groupe dIntervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale |
GRU | Soviet Chief Intelligence Office |
ICEX | Intelligence Collection and Exploitation Concept |
IIIC | International Independent Investigation Commission |
IIS | Iraqi Intelligence Service |
IMRO | Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization |
INLA | Irish National Liberation Army |
INR | State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research |
IPLO | Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation |
IRA | Irish Republican Army |
IRGC | Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps |
IRSP | Irish Republican Socialist Party |
ISI | Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan) |
JCAG | Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide |
JDL | Jewish Defense League |
JIC | Joint Intelligence Committee |
JSO | Jaraminayah Security Organization (Libya) |
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