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Other potential targets go into seclusion, and are rarely heard from or seen in public, such as writer Salman Rushdie.

A related form of protection is the use of body doubles a person built similar to the person he is expected to impersonate.

These persons are then made up, and in some cases altered to look like the target, with the body double then taking the place of the person in high risk situations.

According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1997, Fidel Castro has used body doubles.