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... 1948-9. CIA attempts to influence the Italian elections because the Italian Communist Party was strong that election.
1953. Iranian president Mossadegh is removed in a bloodless coup and the Shah installed. MI5 and the CIA create the riots leading to his deposing. Democracy movement destroyed in Iran by Shah's SAVAK, which is organized and trained with the help of the CIA.
1954. Through bombings of two cities from the air, false radio broadcasts of an impending rebel assault on Guatemala City, the properly elected president, Jacobo Arbenz flees the presidential palace and the CIA's preferred military dictator, Castillo Armas, is installed. The CIA provides Armas with a secret list of his potential opponents in government and civilian life, which sets off a wave of assassinations (including Armas a few years later) which continues with successive military dictatorships until over 100,000 Mestizos are killed or disappeared.
1955. CIA sent to destabilize Vietnam prior to the UN-mandated 1956 elections. The havoc caused wrecks the elections and sets the stage for the Vietnam war and the Phoenix program, in which thousands are assassinated.
1959. CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers' U-2 overflight of the Soviet Union is shot down, greatly increasing tensions between the two countries when Eisenhower denies the flight occurred.
1959. CIA begins plans to destabilize Castro's new government, and by 1960, the Bay of Pigs coup is being planned and Cubans trained to take the island. Government and CIA ignore Soviet estimates that Castro has 80% support among Cubans. So determined will the CIA and the NSC be to remove Castro that it will include assassination plots, secret meetings with Mafia dons and Operation Northwoods, in which the Air Force and Army plan to set off bombs along the east coast and blame them on Cuban spies, in order to mobilize public support for an invasion of Cuba. The situation becomes so extreme that Kennedy kills Northwoods and move the assassination program, Operation Mongoose from the CIA to the military.
1960. Patrice Lumumba is assassinated in the Congo before the CIA can carry out its plans to do so. Questions still remain if the CIA was involved in the actual assassination.
1961. CIA attempts Bay of Pigs invasion and fails. Great animosity between the White House, the military and the CIA over Kennedy's refusal to send in troops behind invaders.
1962-1990. CIA continues to quietly influence governments throughout Latin America. Plans to assist in military coup in Brazil in 1964, but at last minute, decides help is not necessary, as the coup will succeed on its own. Aids in promoting right wing dictators and death squads throughout the region, in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia and Panama. Torrijos of Panama begins to assert independence from US, negotiates treaty in 1977 with Carter to return control of Panama Canal to Panama and is killed in a plane crash in 1981. Eventually succeeded by Manuel Noriega, a known CIA operative in the region. In Nicaragua, the CIA supplies and trains Nicaraguan exiles, the so-called Contras, to terrorize the countryside in an attempt to destabilize the Sandanistan government, an operation which eventually evolves into the Iran-Contra affair.
1973. CIA looks with favor on the military coup of Chile's president, Salvador Allende, by Gen. Pinochet. As in Argentina, a wave of executions and disappearances follow, including that of Allende. CIA has knowledge of, but does not stop, Operation Condor, a consortium of intelligence agencies in South America used to assassinate opponents of the right wing, including the car bombing of Orlando Letelier in 1976, in Washington, DC. George H.W. Bush is the DCI at the time.
1975-7. Pike and Church committees explore CIA abuses of power over time, including assassination plots of foreign leaders and wiretapping and surveillance of US citizens. Hearings lead to demands for greater oversight, later forgotten by Congress, and the law known as FISA in 1978.
1977. Carter begins to empty out covert action side of CIA. Ex-CIA officers retaliate later by lending human intelligence skills to Reagan campaign. Carter's briefing books stolen, and use of moles in both the White House and Carter reelection campaign aid in defeating Carter.
1979. Carter authorizes the CIA to begin the process of destabilizing the government of Afghanistan, in order to draw Soviets into protracted proxy war in that country. War lasts almost ten years. CIA uses the Pakistani ISI to distribute money and buy supplies locally, which the ISI then uses to aid Taliban after Soviets withdraw.
1980. CIA promotes election of Robert Daubisson in El Salvador, and chooses not to interfere with his death squads roaming the country. Death squads are implicated in the deaths of American nuns and lay workers, Archbishop Romero and the mass murder of villagers in and around El Mozote, and later, American priests.
1982-5. CIA heavily involved in Beirut and Lebanon. Likely involved in car bombing which misses target but accidentally kills 80 bystanders. Much of illegal trade in arms with Iran is directed toward retrieving CIA station chief William Buckley. Buckley is brutally tortured and killed before Reagan NSC can arrange a trade.
1987. Iran-Contra hearings. Despite rumors, the Senate committee does not investigate charges which implicate CIA in Contra drug-running. CIA's own Inspector General confirms the substance of many of the charges twelve years later.
1988-1991. New senator John Kerry investigates the role of BCCI in money laundering, and runs headlong against resistance by the CIA, since the CIA has also been using the corrupt Saudi bank to move money around the world, particularly through a branch in Australia.
1995-7. CIA reportedly seen in many locations around Kosovo with cash and guns before fighting breaks out there and US/UN bombing begins.
2001-2006. CIA active around world in torture and imprisonment of suspected terrorists after 9/11.
Lots more I've forgotten or we simply don't know about.
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