On July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes of the United States Navy shot down Iran’s civilian Flight 655 on its usual route over Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The cold-blooded terrorist attack killed all 290 people on board, including 66 children and 16 women. The US Navy even awarded special commendation medals for “meritorious service” to two of the top officers who were serving on the USS Vincennes.
Mike Pompeo and officials requested ‘options’ for killing Assange following WikiLeaks’ publication of CIA hacking tools, report says
Senior CIA officials during the Trump administration discussed abducting and even assassinating WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a US report citing former officials.
The discussions on kidnapping or killing Assange took place in 2017, Yahoo News reported, when the fugitive Australian activist was entering his fifth year sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy. The then CIA director, Mike Pompeo, and his top officials were furious about WikiLeaks’ publication of “Vault 7”, a set of CIA hacking tools, a breach which the agency deemed to be the biggest data loss in its history.
