An authoritarian government needs to eliminate a defector living in the United States who has testified before Congress. In 1973, the same government kidnapped a dissident from a Tokyo hotel using its own intelligence agents, but the operation was exposed and caused a major diplomatic crisis. By 1979, they have adopted a different method: luring the target to a third country (France) and hiring local criminals to carry out the killing while a government operative verifies the result. What specific operational lesson from the 1973 failure explains this change in method, and what strategic advantage does the new approach provide?