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* Training files of the CIA's covert " Operation PBSUCCESS ," for the 1954 coup in Guatemala.

According to the National Security Archive: " Among the documents found in the training files of Operation PBSUCCESS and declassified by the Agency is a CIA document titled ' A Study of Assassination.

' A how-to guide book in the art of political killing, the 19-page manual offers detailed descriptions of the procedures, instruments, and implementation of assassination.

" The manual states that to provide plausible denial, " no assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded.