Hegemonic Power at its Finest: "Family Jewels" revealed

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NALs

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"The CIA declassified nearly 700 pages of secret records Tuesday recording its illegal activities during the first decades of the Cold War, publishing a catalog of adventures that run the gamut of spy movie clich?s from attempts to kill foreign leaders and intercept domestic mail to garden-variety break-ins and burglaries.

The papers reveal some new details about the CIA?s plots to assassinate foreign leaders. Among them were Cuban President Fidel Castro; Patrice Lumumba, the democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator
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CIA opens the book on a shady past

It would be interesting to know what previously unknown detail(s) of the CIA's assassination plot against Trujillo has been released.

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AZB

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Funny how we think countries like Iran and iraq are danger to other countries.
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shadInToronto

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Paranoia is at the root of it ....

There's an ever present evil enemy waiting to 'pounce' on America. 50 years from now, similar dirty tactics will be revealed about the war on terror and American policy to spread its version of democracy.
 

Mirador

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There's chatter that the real "CIA Family Jewels" went over 7000 pages, and that the 700 pages declassified only includes the 'soft" stuff, palatable to the public.
 

El Tigre

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The CIA is in the USA. Yes it's been shady and we all know that.

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