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The book Inside the Company provides fascinating insight into CIA operations in Latin America. The book is written by Phillip Agee (a CIA officer stationed in Uruguay and Ecuador) and is a diary of Agee's operations in these countries. The book goes into extreme detail, often revealing sources names and the names of other CIA officers, and providing a day-by-day account of what a CIA officer does. Due to this book, Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, which made it a crime to intentionally reveal the identity of a covert intelligence officer.

In this book, Agee describes literally hundreds of campaigns that the CIA orchestrated to undermine socialist governments in Latin America. These campaigns include the spread of propaganda and funding of conservative groups. One particularly noteable example is that while in Uruguay, Agee claims to have delivered briefcases containing hundreds of thousands of US dollars to General Pinochet in Chile in order to prevent the election of the communist Salvador Allende. Agee describes how this operation successfully prevented Allende from being elected 3 times. But eventually, Allende is elected and General Pinochet overthrows Allende in a coup, leading to one of the most brutal regimes in Latin America's history.

I really want to encourage everyone to read the book. Like go to amazon right now and purchase it. It provides fascinating insight not only into how the US has intervened in Latin America, but is by far the most authentic source we have for what the day-to-day life of a CIA officer looks like.

It works out to something like 227 million dollars a year for 22 years. That is a lot of money to spend on propoganda and building pro-western organizations. You may say that's a good thing. I disagree.

But, I think you are willfully ignoring the stated goals of the State Department in those documents This applies to Russia as well as Ukraine. So, does that aid go to Ukraine to do with as they will, or does it go to promote the State Dept. agenda of putting a friendly govt. in Here is what is stated by the State Dept.

>** For Eastern and Southeastern Europe, this goal is best met through these countries’ accession to the European Union and NATO**

It is unambiguous. So you can't sit back and say that the US isn't meddling.

This is the CIA playbook. It's been in use since the 50s. I recommend reading Phillip Agee's Inside the Company. He lays out in detail exactly how the CIA operated in Central America.

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