Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Human rights violations by the CIA" in English language version.
One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president [sic] of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford, Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Basic Books. p. 290. ISBN 9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner, Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Doubleday. p. 163. ISBN 9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum, William (2003). Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Zed Books. p. 98. ISBN 9781842773697. cf. Powers, Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. pp. 160–164. ISBN 9780394507774.
The target was Colonel Fadhil Abbas al-Mahdawi, the brutal, pro-Soviet head of the People's Court who had been targeting pro-American Iraqis, according to Hermann F. Eilts, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who spent most of his career in the Arab world.
One of [Critchfield's] first actions, in February 1960, according to a later Congressional investigation, was an attempt to murder the president [sic] of Iraq, General Abd al-Karim Qasim.cf. Wilford, Hugh (2013). America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Basic Books. p. 290. ISBN 9780465019656.
They did, however, entertain various suggestions for covert action against the new Iraqi leader, Abd al-Karim Qasim, among them a scheme proposed by the CIA's Health Alteration Committee involving a poisoned handkerchief.cf. Weiner, Tim (2008). Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Doubleday. p. 163. ISBN 9780307455628.
Another failed assassination plot, using a poisoned handkerchief ... was endorsed all the way up the CIA's chain of command.cf. Blum, William (2003). Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Zed Books. p. 98. ISBN 9781842773697. cf. Powers, Thomas (1979). The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA. Knopf. pp. 160–164. ISBN 9780394507774.
[T]he report ... cuts through the ocean of euphemism, the EITs, enhanced interrogation techniques, and all that. It gets to straight language. Torture — it's obviously torture. ... the metaphor and the euphemism is designed to dull the moral sensibility.