Robert Baer on his book, The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins

[Douglas Caddy]

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Book Discussion on The Perfect Kill

Former CIA agent Robert Baer talked about his book, The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins, about the history of political assassinations and his own connection to them. He also talked about what goes into achieving the perfect kill. During this event held at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Mr. Baer spoke with Lowell Bergman.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?322743-1/book-discussion-perfect-kill

[Jon G. Tidd]

Douglas,

Many thanks for posting this C-span video.

Members of this forum IMO should pay careful attention to what Baer says at the outset about his role in the CIA. He describes the CIA officers as belonging to one of two camps: case officers and analysts. And he sketches out the differences between the two. Baer says that as a case officer he lied about everything. Members here should keep this in mind in assessing David Atlee Phillips and E. Howard Hunt, for example.

[Douglas Caddy]

After an initial folksy discourse, Baer's revelations and opinions are remarkable. Around minute 39 he characterizes the CIA essentially as being a killing machine and at the very end he states that U.S. Intelligence is out of control. At one point in the interim he declares that U.S. military and intelligence operations these days have become jaded and those in charge and those carrying out the attacks do not care who is killed by U.S. drones because there is never an investigation as to whether the targets merited being wiped out.