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Orchestrated Revolt: Part I

supporting the anti-communists in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1989--- supporting al-Za’im in Syria in 1949--- installing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi in 1953 Iran--- supporting Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas in 1954 Guatemala--- providing weapons to anti-communist Tibetans, from the mid-1950’s to the 1970’s--- rounding up & supporting the Laotian Hmong to fight communists in Laos, from the mid-1950’s to the 1970’s--- providing weapons, money and aid to Colonel Ahmad Hussein and Colonel Ventje Sumual’s forces in 1958 Indonesia--- attemped to assassinate Fidel Castro various times, training anti-communists to invade Cuba in 1959 through the failed Bay of Pigs operation and Operation Mongoose--- supported coup of Rafael Trujilo’s regime in the Dominican Republic in 1961 and his subsequent assassination--- supported the Ba’ath Party killing of Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1963--- instigated, supported and provided money to those carrying out the coup & assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963’s South Vietnam--- supported Joao Goulart’s removal via coup d’etat in 1964’s Brazil--- supported anti-communist right-wingers in 1967’s Greece, killing what had been a democratically elected government there--- did everything under the sun to eliminate the government of elected President Salvador Allende in Chile, from 1970-1973, including the murder of Rene Schneider--- supported the military overthrow of Argentina’s democratically elected Isabel Martinez de Peron in 1976---

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