Does anyone have a list of the CIA's greatest hits?

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How many coups has it engineered over the years?

[historian]

1. plenty

I dont have precise dates but can come close.
In the 50's it was guatemala with the United Fruit Company.
In the 60's it was Argentina and Brazil, both of whom had elected socialist governments. Ditto with Greece when the king was removed and was re placed by a junta of coronels.
In the 70's we had chile and Pinochet.
Panama (not really a coup but an invasion) in the 90's in order to remove a non cooperating thug.
Many attempts on Castro's life (all of which failed, leading to a rise in Jesse Helms blood pressure).
There are many more but the common thread here is that legitimate governments are overthrown and are replaced by brutal thugs, blessed and financed by the Cia.
Oh yes silly me - El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica I believe (under reagan, that fine fellow)

[Sandpiper]

2. Let's see

Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, El Salvador, Costa Rica...

and that's just off the top of my head

[yella_dawg]

3. I counted 27 since WWII

But there's a group in Austrailia (sorry no link) that claims 34, if I remember correctly. If no one has the info handy, I'll look it up for you.

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4. Wow!

27! :wow:

[lutherj]

5. Here's a partial list

1953 Iran
1954 Guatemala
1954-58 North Vietnam (attempted)
1959 Haiti
1961 Cuban Bay of Pigs (attempted)
1961 Dominican Republic
1961 Ecuador
1961 Congo (Assassination of Lamumba)
1963 Dominican Republic
1963 Ecuador
1964 Brazil (CIA trains death squads)
1965 Indonesia (CIA installs Suharto, leading to the “Year of Living Dangerously”
1965 Greece
1965 Congo (CIA installs Mobutu Ses Seko)
1967 Greece (Lyndon Johnson tells Greece “Fuck your parliament and your constitution.”)
1970 Cambodia
1971 Bolivia
1973 Chile (Allende is assassinated, replaced with Pinochet)
1975 Australia
1975 Angola (attempted)
1979 El Salvador
1979 Nicaragua
1989 Panama
1990 Haiti

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7. Do you have a link?

I would like to save this and cite it in the future.

Australia and Greece? I didn't know white countries were targeted too. :wow:

[GOPisEvil]

10. My parents were in Athens for Greece (1967).

Tanks through town, the whole bit. Thankfully the coup was bloodless, but a coup nonetheless.

It was about a year before I happened on the scene - the two events are not related. ;-)

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12. Pre-emptive coups are often required

When libruls who hate freedom are going to be born. You may have become a terraist. ;)

[hang a left]

9. Very informative first post.

And a nice warm welcome to ya lutherj

[ieoeja]

11. 1979 Nicaragua

Are you seriously suggesting the CIA helped communists overthrow the government of Nicaragua in 1979?


1953 Iran was a counter-coup restoring a government that was knocked off by a military coup a few months earlier.


1975 Australia was, of course, famous. It amazes me to this day that the Brits stood by while we engineered a coup in ... what? There was never a coup in Australia? Oh. Nevermind.

[lutherj]

14. No, but the CIA started funding the contras

shortly after the sandanistas ousted Samoza. The Sandanistas, which were initially recognized by the world for their improvements in healthcare and literacy, were eventually undermined and lost office

[GregW]

16. I lived through the overthrow of the Whitlam government in Oz

Geoff Whitlam shaped who I am today politically. The only thing even close to the passion Whitlam brought to Australian politics after 20+ years continual rule by the conservatives, was the passion Clinton brought in '92.

One of the most miserable failures in Fraser's government was their Treasurer ... a slimy little wet-fart by the name of John Howard.

Read more about the dismissal of the Whitlam Government here

[central scrutinizer]

13. cuba 1961-present

There have been numerous attacks against Cuba - some comical like the exploding cigars intended for Castro - and some dowmright sinister including biological warfare. See:

http://www.poptel.org.uk/cuba-solidarity/CubaSi-January/Bio.html

excerpt:

--1962 A US intelligence agent is known to have given several thousand dollars to a Canadian to introduce a disease infecting Cuban sea-turtles.

--1965 A plastic balloon descends on a farm in Santiago de las Vegas. When it hits the ground it expels a white dust that spreads to cane plantation which is later destroyed.

--1968 A foreign specialist working for an international agency is expelled after he is confirmed to have introduced a virus affecting coffee crops.

--1970 The US is caught seeding clouds over Cuba in an attempt to affect the sugar harvest. The project was part of a larger research plan called "The Cooling" which was intended to devise ways of manipulating the weather for political reasons.

--1971 African swine fever is introduced. The Cubans claim that the container transporting the virus came from Fort Gullick, a US military base in the Panama Canal Zone. Those involved in this attack have since testified to their part. The entire pig population of Cuba had to be slaughtered.

--1981 A sudden outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever affects 350,000 people. 158 people, including children, die from the disease. The disease is later discovered to be exactly the same strain of the disease which caused an outbreak in New Guinea in 1924 but no others in the world except the Cuban case. The outbreak had three initial breeding grounds in Cienfuegos and Camagüey, all very close to international air corridors. Just prior to the outbreak it was discovered that the entire personnel at the Guantanamo naval base had been vaccinated against dengue. As a result there was not a single case of the disease in the base.

[Aidoneus]

15. that's a short list, but it'll due

William Blum's work on the matter is an excellent reference.

[Sandpiper]

6. Here ya go

The link is to a database of CIA sponsored Coups D'etat and other subversive activities in foreign nations.

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/history-cia-atrocities.htm

The list includes:

Greece
Italy
Iran
Guatemala
Vietnam
Hungary
Laos
Haiti
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Congo (Zaire)
Brazil
Indonesia
Bolivia
Uraguay
Cambodia
Chile
Australia
Angola
Afghanistan
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Honduras
Panama
Iraq

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8. Thanks!

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