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It is not very believable that a state actor would use an untrained amateur for killing someone. What if they bail out? Tell the victim? Get the wrong person?
by praptak 10y ago
It is not very believable that a state actor would use an untrained amateur for killing someone. What if they bail out? Tell the victim? Get the wrong person?
- ajb 10y agoAll that is, from their point of view, outweighed by the considerable advantage of not getting caught themselves. They can always try again.
- M_Grey 10y agoTell the victim what? "A stranger offered me money to play this prank on you." The shill knows nothing beyond that. Meanwhile your trained agents need to be a rare combination of loyal, controllable at home (via families etc held hostage), and yet still worldly enough to function as assassins! That person knows things, and that is the person you want as little exposed (or tempted to defect) as possible.
- ycombinete 10y agoIt might be, but IIRC North Korea has already attempted to hire a taxi driver once before, to assassinate the same man.