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In Britain, counterassassination security for the Edward Heath government was, we are told, “a joke.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

The development of comprehensive state-policy responses to the threat of assassination—stringent security measures, risk-ranking systems, even counterassassination contingency planning—is a more recent phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025