United States Federal Government Sanctioned Assassin Versus a United States Spy by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD
The United States CIA is now known to have sponsored several plans to assassinate Fidel Castor of Cuba. The agency would not send in a CIA operator to do the dirty work but would recruit a nefarious criminal probably a member of the Mafia which is also known as the Cosa Nostra. The hired hand would be recruited clandestinely so the CIA would have plausible deniability. The Mafia was angry with Castro for kicking them out of the country and the subsequent loss of their gambling and other rackets empire in Cuba. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was aware of these attempts. Supposedly Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy for his attempts to take out Castro.
Assassinating the head of state of some other country is very dirty business and will probably cause a retaliatory attempt to kill the sponsor. Before leaving office, President Gerald Rudolf Ford, Jr. recruited George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush 41) and had him confirmed as Director of the CIA. President Ford then ordered DCI Bush to clean up the agency and stop all pending and future assassination plans.
A United States spy is a human intelligence (HUMINT) operative of the Directorate of Operations of the CIA now known as the Clandestine Service. A spy must maintain a low profile and is an individual who uses her/his training and wits instead of a lot of sophisticated equipment. The spy probably does not carry weapons nor use her/his cellphone as a primary means of communication with her/his handler (usually a station chief). The time-honored way of passing messages is the dead drop. The spy goes about her/his business with little or no fanfare.
A United States spy must rely on the CIA to swap a foreign operator for our her/him if he or she has the great misfortune of being arrested as a spy. It is a good tradition to always recover your valuable spy by nearly any means. See the great movie “Bridge of Spies”.
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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