Editing CIA A Study Of Assassination (1953) (section)

===CLASSIFICATIONS ===
The techniques employed will vary according to whether the subject is 
unaware of his danger, aware but unguarded, or guarded. They will also be 
affected by whether or not the assassin is to be killed with the subject. 
Hereafter, assassinations in which the subject is unaware will be termed 
"simple"; those where the subject is aware but unguarded will be termed 
"chase"; those where the victim is guarded will be termed "guarded." 

If the assassin is to die with the subject, the act will be called "lost." If the 
assassin is to escape, the adjective will be "safe." It should be noted that no 
compromises should exist here. The assassin must not fall alive into enemy 
hands. 

A further type division is caused by the need to conceal the fact that the 
subject was actually the victim of assassination, rather than an accident or 
natural causes. If such concealment is desirable the operation will be called 
"secret"; if concealment is immaterial, the act will be called "open"; while if the 
assassination requires publicity to be effective it will be termed "terroristic." 

Following these definitions, the assassination of Julius Caesar was safe, 
simple, and terroristic, while that of Huey Long was lost, guarded and open. 
Obviously, successful secret assassinations are not recorded as 
assassination at all. [Meg] of Thailand and Augustus Caesar may have been 
the victims of safe, guarded and secret assassination. Chase assassinations 
usually involve clandestine agents or members of criminal organizations.