The CIA's ZR/RIFLE project was a plan to develop an assassination capability that designated a European associate of organized crime to recruit future operatives, but the plan never advanced beyond the drawing board.
Sources
- The Mysterious Blunderings of the CIA (warontherocks.com)
- https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/ops/zr-rifle.htm (globalsecurity.org)
- https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/ir/pdf/ChurchIR_3C_ExecAction.pdf (aarclibrary.org)
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/21502-document-09 (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
- http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Harvey%20William%20King%20CIA/Item%2002.pdf (jfk.hood.edu)