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When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

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Re: When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

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Ah, the feared CIA, that did nothing while the us imploded - my guess is the heart attack gun did never work, but the agency ordered several mansions worth of it.

AntiImperial russians, innocent brown people, white colonizers, the mighty dark cabals of the CIA.. is that all whats left of this story?

Re: When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

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It really makes you wonder what other weapons they have that we don't know about.

There was claims of a possible cancer "gun". See https://www.ibtimes.com/hugo-chavez-says-us-could-be-giving-...

That can’t even be that hard. Some sort of directed radiation beam will do that easily.

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The information in the article is shocking and disturbing, and largely known to most informed people. So I'm not sure what's meant by the "got away with" part. It's hard to call it "getting away with", when it's the standard operating procedure of the agency. What is it exactly that they don't get away with? With people being routinely killed worldwide. When I saw a little old lady, literally in a doily hat, in the B…

> So I'm not sure what's meant by the "got away with" part. The agency still exists, in the exact same form, with no additional oversight. Did you think it just meant remaining obscured from the public? Shouldn't someone have gone to jail for this? > Recreating the Church commission today wouldn't be just difficult, it is completely impossible. The CIA has literally taken "ex-employees" and run them into the House an…

It's not hard to kill people or anything. Doesn't exactly take a lot of research to do either. If your agency is developing a bunch of new ways to kill people, it doesn't actually increase capabilities, doesn't it just mean they're bored?

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> a weapon designed to deliver untraceable assassinations using shellfish toxin darts. How is that untraceable? Gee, we found an extremely sophisticated shellfish toxin dart in the victim, must be nothing! What a stupid article

Ice needle projectile maybe

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Wasn't this only possible because Trump enacted "Operation Warp Speed?"

I also remember during the 2020 VP debate when Kamala was asked if she would take the Trump vaccine. That sure turned around when it became the Biden vaccine.

Re: When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

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Besides the Church Committee testimony, is there any evidence for the heart attack gun existing? There's part of me that wonders if they made it up for the purpose of disclosing it to Congress, to make themselves seem like they were authentically participating in the overview and accountability proceedings. Kind of like the way murder suspects in police interrogations might give unprompted and quite possibly fake con…

from previous reading up on this, it is my understanding this was most likely for show for the committee (this was public information after all) and was not a real device used, because it could not work

skimming this article is also seems based on a false premise…the church committee did not hold the CIA accountable. they openly destroyed documents, fairly openly murdered their own employees, broke laws, etc.

see “Legacy of Ashes”

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