Daniel Ellsberg: “I was the target of a Miami Cuban exiles hit squad”

Yesterday, an Internet publication named The Daily Beast interviewed Pentagon Papers documents leaker and author Daniel Ellsberg.

Mr. Ellsberg stated the following when he was asked if the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, was in danger:

“I happen to have been the target of a White House hit squad myself. On May 3, 1972, a dozen CIA assets from the Bay of Pigs, Cuban émigrés, were brought up from Miami with orders to “incapacitate me totally.” I said to the prosecutor, “What does that mean? Kill me.” He said, “It means to incapacitate you totally. But you have to understand these guys never use the word 'kill.'"

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