CIA • 2025

THE ASSASSINS: EVERYTHING ABOUT ASSASSINATION SEEMS UN-AMERICAN

[104-10419-10039 a-1 VIII THE ASSASSINS EVERYTHING ABOUT assassination seems un-American. The word assassin comes from "hashish." The first assassins, almost a thou- sand years ago, were the "hashshashrn," the "hashish-users," a fa- natical Moslem sect in Persia who considered murder of their ene- mies a sacred duty. Violence may be, in the words of the black militant H...