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in the early 1960s the CIA had almost as many agents working under diplomatic cover as the State Department had actual diplomats abroad?
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They identify Mexico, along with 14 other nations whose intelligence services were “assisting us” in covert efforts against Cuba.
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As part of Operation Mongoose, the CIA managed to contaminate an entire cargo shipment of Cuban sugar bound for the USSR “with a chemical used in the process of denaturing alcohol,”
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The documents also expose how the CIA financed and orchestrated the 1966 election of its chosen coup-plotting military man, Gen. René Barrientos in Bolivia. They record in greater detail than previously understood how agency operatives financed—at $10,000 a day—street protests in British Guiana that pushed the liberal government of Cheddi Jagan from power in late 1964.
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the extraordinary nature of this week’s release reveals what kind of final secrets the CIA was determined to safeguard.
✏️ From 2017 till now, they kept pushing presidents to delay revealing some papers, claiming they had sensitive personal information on people still alive and it would hurt them. What this stuff actually was, was CIA doing extremely suspicious stuff etc. 🔗 View Highlight
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CIA did not want the American public to know that it was spying on US journalists; it did not want Mexicans to know that their president had actively collaborated in one of the agency’s biggest and most effective telephone tap operations; it did not want citizens in Canada, Britain, Israel, Holland, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile to know that, in the early 1960s, their government’s intelligence services secretly assisted CIA espionage operations to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba; it did not want Bolivians to know that covert cash had bought and paid for the election of a CIA-chosen candidate in the mid 1960s. Nor for Parisians to know that 123 “diplomats” in the US embassy in the early 1960s were, in fact, undercover spies.