Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-Changing Murders
A deep dive into high stakes killings, conspiracies and crimes!

Ruthless killers and murderers for hire: they are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate on command. And, in the process, they change the course of the world. They are among the world’s most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins, and they have a long history of grievous deeds.

From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths.

  • Did Lee Harvey Oswald really kill JFK? Or was Oswald the patsy he claimed to be?
  • Was Jack the Ripper, who terrified London in 1888, a madman or a ruthless secret agent of the British government?
  • Did the United States’ first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, kill himself, or was he thrown out of a window to his death in May 1949?
  • Did Marilyn Monroe take her own life in August 1962? Was a contract put out on her?
  • What led to the demise of Danny Casolaro, an investigative journalist who, at the time of his death in 1991, was investigating a powerful cabal known as “The Octopus”?
  • Was Diana, Princess of Wales, the victim of a car accident or of a carefully orchestrated plot?
  • Can sound waves and microwaves kill people at the flick of a switch?
  • Was John Lennon’s murder not at all what it appeared to be?

    These questions and many more are answered in Assassinations, and with more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. It's a fascinating read that looks into how and why so many famous and influential figures just had to go!

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    Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-Changing Murders
    A deep dive into high stakes killings, conspiracies and crimes!

    Ruthless killers and murderers for hire: they are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate on command. And, in the process, they change the course of the world. They are among the world’s most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins, and they have a long history of grievous deeds.

    From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths.

  • Did Lee Harvey Oswald really kill JFK? Or was Oswald the patsy he claimed to be?
  • Was Jack the Ripper, who terrified London in 1888, a madman or a ruthless secret agent of the British government?
  • Did the United States’ first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, kill himself, or was he thrown out of a window to his death in May 1949?
  • Did Marilyn Monroe take her own life in August 1962? Was a contract put out on her?
  • What led to the demise of Danny Casolaro, an investigative journalist who, at the time of his death in 1991, was investigating a powerful cabal known as “The Octopus”?
  • Was Diana, Princess of Wales, the victim of a car accident or of a carefully orchestrated plot?
  • Can sound waves and microwaves kill people at the flick of a switch?
  • Was John Lennon’s murder not at all what it appeared to be?

    These questions and many more are answered in Assassinations, and with more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. It's a fascinating read that looks into how and why so many famous and influential figures just had to go!

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    Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-Changing Murders

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    Overview

    A deep dive into high stakes killings, conspiracies and crimes!

    Ruthless killers and murderers for hire: they are here, there, and everywhere. They lurk in the shadows, ready to pounce. They terminate on command. And, in the process, they change the course of the world. They are among the world’s most cold-hearted, deadly, and emotionless figures. They are assassins, and they have a long history of grievous deeds.

    From the cunning, calculating, government-trained warriors to the psychopathic, homegrown freelancers, you can find them all in Assassinations: The Plots, Politics, and Powers behind History-changing Murders. Exposed are the hidden agendas as well as the open warfare. The cynical preparations and devastating aftermaths are laid bare. You will quickly find yourself immersed in a world that is filled with killings made to seem like suicides, murders that were designed to look like heart attacks or overdoses, and accidents that, in reality, were carefully orchestrated deaths.

  • Did Lee Harvey Oswald really kill JFK? Or was Oswald the patsy he claimed to be?
  • Was Jack the Ripper, who terrified London in 1888, a madman or a ruthless secret agent of the British government?
  • Did the United States’ first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, kill himself, or was he thrown out of a window to his death in May 1949?
  • Did Marilyn Monroe take her own life in August 1962? Was a contract put out on her?
  • What led to the demise of Danny Casolaro, an investigative journalist who, at the time of his death in 1991, was investigating a powerful cabal known as “The Octopus”?
  • Was Diana, Princess of Wales, the victim of a car accident or of a carefully orchestrated plot?
  • Can sound waves and microwaves kill people at the flick of a switch?
  • Was John Lennon’s murder not at all what it appeared to be?

    These questions and many more are answered in Assassinations, and with more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. It's a fascinating read that looks into how and why so many famous and influential figures just had to go!


  • Product Details

    ISBN-13: 9781578596904
    Publisher: Visible Ink Press
    Publication date: 04/01/2020
    Series: Dark Minds True Crimes
    Pages: 448
    Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

    About the Author

    Nick Redfern works full time as an author, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including UFOs, alien encounters, government conspiracies, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. His many books include Visible Ink Press’ The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates; Area 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies; The Alien Book: A Guide to Extraterrestrial Beings on Earth; Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order; Cover-Ups & Secrets: The Complete Guide to Government Conspiracies, Manipulations & Deceptions; Control: MKUltra, Chemtrails and the Conspiracy to Suppress the Masses; Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites, and Rituals; and The Monster Book: Creatures, Beasts, and Fiends of Nature. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including History Channel’s Monster Quest and UFO Hunters; VH1’s Legend Hunters; National Geographic Channel’s The Truth about UFOs and Paranatural; the BBC’s Out of this World; MSNBC’s Countdown; and SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive. Nick lives just a few miles from Dallas, Texas’ infamous Grassy Knoll.

    Read an Excerpt

    Pat Price Such were Pat Price’s skills when it came to the matter of remote-viewing, in 1973 Price was brought into an elite fold, one which was overseen by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. He was specifically brought into the Office of Technical Services and its Office of Research and Development. The goal was to have Price do his utmost to try and penetrate some of the most guarded secrets of the former Soviet Union. If Price could access top secret files, papers and documents created by the Russian government and military – the reasoning went – in theory the U.S. government might be able to dispense of its “secret agents” and, instead, have a near-army of psychic spies – watching the enemy via the power of the human mind. One of the CIA’s first operations was to have Price try and remote a domestic target. Namely, a classified installation run by the National Security Agency. Such were Price’s powers, he quickly – and in an extraordinary fashion – identified the facility for what it was. In the immediate wake of the successful operation, the CIA prepared the following summary, not just for itself, but for the NSA’s staff too.

    The CIA stated: “Pat Price, who had no military or intelligence background, provided a list of project titles associated with current and past activities including one of extreme sensitivity. Also, the codename of the site was provided. Other information concerning the physical layout of the site was accurate.”

    It wasn’t long at all before Price found himself engaged in a number of perilous situations and investigations of overseas agencies, intelligence- and military-based operations for the CIA. For example, on a number of occasions Price was ordered to target various Soviet embassies and military bases of Libya. In 1974, there was an unforeseen – but amazing – development in the life and secret career of Pat Price. He was given the task of remote-viewing Alaska’s Mount Hayes. Given the fact that the CIA’s remote-viewing project was designed to spy on foreign, and potentially dangerous, overseas nations, one has to wonder why the CIA would be spying on the United States. There was actually a very good reason as to why the CIA initiated this particular project. It was an incredible reason, too.

    Upon remote-viewing the huge Mount Hayes, Price “saw” something incredible and mind-blowing: it was nothing less than a huge installation – buried deep within the heart of the mountain and run by nothing less than a vast extraterrestrial race. Not only that, the aliens looked very much like us. The only differences being that the eyes of the ETs were slightly different to ours, as were their internal organs. The fact that the CIA had ordered Price to remote-view Mount Hayes suggests that agency spies had prior knowledge of what was going on deep within the dark depths of the massive mountain. How, precisely, the CIA knew what was afoot is a matter that has never been resolved. The CIA keeps its secrets close to its chest, which is perfectly understandable. Now, we come to the most disturbing aspect of this particular, X-Files-type situation. Namely, that the more and more Price dug into the heart of the mountain - so to speak – and became more and more obsessed by the secret presence of this extraterrestrial race, he came to suspect that the aliens had the ability to manipulate us by what he described as “thought transfer for motor control of us.” In other words, mind-control. Matters didn’t end there, though. To his concern – and, admittedly, to his fascination – Price told his CIA handlers that he had uncovered nothing less than three more extraterrestrial bases in hidden in mountainous locations. They were Australia’s Mount Ziel, Mount Perdido in the Pyrenees Mountains, and Zimbabwe’s Mount Inyangani. Quite understandably, this was all very deeply concerning to the CIA. The stark reality seemed to be that potentially very dangerous aliens were living under the surface of our planet and were manipulating our minds for reasons that the CIA had yet to fathom. The whole thing worried Price and his colleagues in the CIA.

    There is very little doubt that Price would have continued with his research into the matter of these underground ETs and their sinister agenda. Unfortunately, something unforeseen steeped in and brought things to a shuddering, terrible end: death. Price passed away on July 14, 1975. It was, however, the nature of his death that was so disturbing of all. Just a few days before his untimely death, Price had a number of covert rendezvous’ with a number of agents of the National Security Agency. Also, with personnel from the Office of Naval Intelligence. The meetings were initiated to determine if Price would be willing to undertake remote-viewing operations for both agencies. Price was gung-ho for both projects. In no time at all, the operations began.

    Just a few days after the meetings, Price flew out of Washington, D.C. His destination: he first took a flight to Salt Lake City, and then onto Sin City itself: Las Vegas. We may never know for sure if Price suspected that his life was in danger. The fact is, however, that with all of this top secret work being undertaken for U.S. intelligence, Price became concerned about his safety to at least a certain degree. To the extent that the purpose of the flight to have over some important, sensitive documents to a friend; just in case anything were to happen to him. It was in the afternoon of July 13 that Price checked into Vegas’ Stardust Hotel. All was going good. That is, until it wasn’t. As he approached the desk to check-in, a man walked straight into Price. It was a violent collision. He felt a shooting pain in his leg, as if he had been hit with a needle. With hindsight, that may very well have been what happened. In near-quick time, Price started to feel ill and decided to lay down and take a nap. But, not before handed over those precious documents.

    A few hours later, and still not feeling so good, Price met with several friends for dinner. There was something on his mind. Not only did Price tell them about the collision in the lobby just a few hours earlier, but he also confided in them that while he was in Washington, D.C. just a little more than a day earlier, he had seen someone slip something in his coffee. Having seen this chilling, covert action occur, Price left the coffee well alone and exited the restaurant quickly. As for the evening at the Stardust Hotel, it wasn’t going to well. In fact, not at all. Price cut the dinner meeting short and went back to his room.

    Around 5:00 a.m. the next day, Price woke up in significant physical distress. His breathing was not right. He had severe cramps in his back and stomach and was sweating profusely. He called his friend who had those important papers, who quickly raced to Price’s room. A doctor was about to be called when Price began to convulse. Then, he went into cardiac arrest. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, who were quickly on the scene, and who managed to briefly kick-start his heart, it was all to no avail. Price was soon dead. It is a fact that Price had heart disease. With that in mind, his death could have been due to wholly natural causes and nothing else at all. But, we cannot – and should not – forget the fact that Price had seen someone surreptitiously slip something into his coffee, just a couple of days earlier. Then there was the matter of the potentially suspicious collision in the lobby of the Stardust Hotel in Vegas. You’ll recall the 1978 death of Bulgarian writer, Georgi Markov, London, England. The circumstances are, admittedly, very similar. To this day, the death of Pat Price is still discussed in hushed tones where the conspiratorial lurk.

    Table of Contents

    About the Author
    Acknowledgments
    Preface
    Introduction

    1: President Lincoln taken out
    2: Jack the Ripper or Jack the assassin?
    3: Did he jump or was he pushed?
    4: Assassination and Silencing
    5: The journalist who had to die
    6: Wiping out UFO researchers
    7: Strange deaths in the Roswell conspiracy
    8: Plans to kill Castro
    9: The mysterious end of Marilyn Monroe
    10: Death in Dealey Plaza
    11: The enigmatic Lee Harvey Oswald
    12: A president shot for his knowledge of aliens
    13: Martin Luther King Jr. and a deadly bullet
    14: Terminating Robert Kennedy
    15: Killing a rock star
    16: Almost assassinating President Ronald Reagan
    17: Death on the Space Shuttle
    18: The CIA’s “how to kill a man” file
    19: Sinister sacrifices
    20: The world mourns the disturbing death of a princess
    21: The man whose hands were mysteriously missing
    22: “Drowned” in a canoe
    23: Killing in the name of the Slenderman
    24: A news reporter is no more
    25: Scientists suspiciously drop like flies
    26: Murdered by the New World Order
    27: The Mothman “death curse”
    28: Making an assassination look like an accident
    29: Conclusion

    Further Reading
    Index

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