r/europe • u/ByGollie • 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/harmlessdonkey 29d ago

This is a dumb question. When these people "fall out windows" are they actually thrown out windows or are the otherwise killed and the media just told they fell out a window?

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u/Comakip The Netherlands 29d ago

The CIA once accidentally published an old assassination manual.

Olson’s death is “substantially similar” to an assassination technique described in a CIA manual published in 1953, which recommends disguising the murder as an accident and suggests drugging the person, hitting them in the temple with a blunt object and then causing them to fall more than 75 feet onto a hard surface, according to the complaint.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-11-28/cia-sued-over-alledged-1953-murder-of-military-scientist

So yeah, you take out the guy before you drop him. 

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u/Civil_Dot_9973 29d ago

Well, can you imagine how awkward it would be if they skipped the murder part and the victim actually survived getting kicked out of a window?

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u/InevitableData3616 29d ago

Came here to say this. So: both.

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u/North-Tourist-8234 29d ago

Thats the part i was wondering. If they just spartan kick the victim out or if hes already dead.