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The Death of Thomas Merton

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The C I a Was Down in the Trenches

The c i a has manuals on assassination. The most preferred method for quietly removing someone from the chess board is to make it look like an accident. This led the authors o turley and martin, to say that helping dispose of a nettlesome monk who was interfering with the war effort would have been little more than routine business because they were closer with tie police forces rather than overall government. If any c ia agent felt merton was a threat to the country, hey, could have just had him killed, no questions asked like it wouldn't have been a big deal,. which is somehow even more terrified than saying, yes, we did it, and we carefully planned it

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