Which shows that Herminio Diaz had experience. The CIA withheld important information from the “Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.” The author of The Kennedy Half-Century: The
In the early 1960s, the left party was on the rise with the presidential election of Joo Goulart. Goulart’s actions, consisting of alienating Brazilian’s rights and military, resulted in accusations of him spreading communism to Brazil. Consequently, with the United States overpowering fear of communism the CIA felt obliged to interfere with Brazilian politics. Similarly to the United States’ actions in El Salvador, in 1965 U.S. financial and military aid was sent to help overthrow Goulart, going as far as utilizing propaganda by bribing Brazilian
Gary Webb, the CIA, the Contra war, and the United States government involvement in the trafficking and smuggling of cocaine in and out of Central America until this day, still remains highly controversial. This was an event that had been going on for quite some time which no one had any idea at all that it was happening. However, until finally a news reporter from the San Jose Mercury News stumbles upon this controversial and problematic story, strictly by coincidence. The involvement of the CIA in trafficking drugs in Nicaragua was to simply fund the Contra war in Nicaragua during the Ronald Reagan administration. The Ronald Reagan administration was formulated under the theory of saying no to drugs and they were against it entirely.
William Hudson's book American Democracy in Peril, has given several challenges facing democracy in American. Hudson's seventh challenge to America's democracy is the national security state. Starts the chapter off talking about Ronald Reagan's administration and their involvement in Central America. He talks about two important people that were involved in it such as CIA director William Casey who created the contra to prevent the Saninistas from supplying the rebels in El Salvador. Hudson also talks the Oliver North and John Poindexter and the Iran-contra and how they with the support of Casey created a hidden government inside the government that used government resources to achieve their own political agenda (Hudson).
The Counterintelligence Program, also referred to as the COINTELPRO, was a Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) secret program during the 1960s. The purpose of this program was to eliminate “radical” political opposition in the United States. One of the main targeted groups for this program was the Black Movement groups and leaders. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an activist and prominent leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated by a sniper in 1968. The death of King is in connection to COINTELPRO, as there is evidence of a death threat letter.
Anyone could be a spy and the threat of communism was all anyone would talk of think about. Although communism was such a major problem in the U.S. at the time, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration did not help to end the fear, rather fuel
The Guatemalan Coup was founded in 1954 and began the Banana Wars. The reason for this was to overthrow Arbenz in Guatemala and end the revolution. The U.S. Government and CIA helped overthrow the Guatemalan Coup in order to protect the funds of the United Fruit Company. During the Cold War, Americans feared communism and the Kremlin and tried their best to stop it from spreading even more than it already had. The U.S. said they were going in for containment, but the real reason they went in was because they were protecting American business.
Post World War II, US policy was tailored to the demands of the Cold War with the USSR, and successive administrations actively worked to undermine communist governments from Indonesia to Iran to Cuba. When Salvador Allende, a professed socialist with strong communist sympathies won the election in Chile in 1970, he was treated by President Nixon and his national security advisor Henry Kissinger as a grave threat to the US. Chile was, after all, in the US’s backyard, and if Allende was allowed to remain as president, the USSR could conceivably make inroads into Latin America, threatening the US’s geopolitical interests both in the Western hemisphere and worldwide.1 This paper argues that the Nixon administration actively undermined the Allende government by working with anti-communist opposition parties and the Chilean army. It provided funds for anti-Allende propaganda, demonstration and strikes to create chaos in the country so that an army takeover of the government could be justified as a means
Edgar Hoover intensified his personal anti-Communist, anti-subversive stance and increased the FBI’s surveillance activities. Frustrated over limitations placed on the Justice Department’s investigative capabilities, Hoover created the Counter Intelligence Program or COINTELPRO. The group conducted a series of covert, and oftentimes illegal investigations designed to discredit or disrupt radical political organizations. Initially, Hoover ordered background checks on government employees to prevent foreign agents from infiltrating the government. Later, COINTELPRO went after any organization Hoover considered subversive, including the Black Panthers, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Ku Klux
This research paper covered some of the many projects and operations by the CIA that were known as some of the most interesting, and even illegal operations. Many of these remember, were in 1950-1970, there are not many CIA operations like this that were recorded in the last 20 years. In addition, there were many more operations during that time that were very helpful to our nation. Works Cited for: Horrock, Nicholas. “Colby Describes CIA Poison Work” September 17, 1975.
Latin America had many military juntas between the 1960s and 1980s because, they believed they could rule better than civilians, and at this point not much else was working, which left them with a military dictator experiment. A military style leader has been seen many times prior to the 1960s. For example, the caudillos of the early independence era ruled by strict force. Then the Depression era brought a new style of military figure, a caudillo like dictator who rose from the armed forces. Another military model appeared in the 1960s.
Many people supported the CIA and covert missions during the Cold War, knowing that the deception and espionage were keeping the army from having to fight in an actual war like World War II, which they had just endured. The first way fear justified CIA covert action through fear was that secrecy inflicted fear among the people. By this, the CIA was able to control a large population and decide what information they would receive about what was happening. Because all of the CIA action was classified, citizens rarely knew what was going on, and therefore felt threatened because they weren’t fully informed of what their nation was doing and if it was moral to be supporting the secret decisions of their nation. By keeping most information secret, people were forced to choose sides; either siding with the CIA and backing the CIA’s decisions of covert work, or opposing the CIA because the people were being left in the dark about what was happening to their nation regarding the CIA’s choices.
One spy was caught sharing information with the USSR and went to jail. People in education were also being monitored because they had the ability to poison the children’s minds by teaching them that Communism is a good thing. The US had legitimate reasons to fear people in the field of Education, Science, and Government.
Contrast between Chile and USA During my whole life I’ve been back and forth, living between Chile and USA. I’ve lived in both countries for almost the same amount of years each. I think if I hadn’t lived here when I was smaller, I would feel a big cultural shock. Geographically Chile is very extensive and in length, we have a great variety of climates and landforms. We can take the bus from the middle of a region and in 1hour be either at the mountains full of snow or at the sea.
2). According to former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief Paul Redmond the United States suffered from a “national capacity for naivete” (Sulick, 2012, p. 2). The term coined by Mr. Redmond explains American naivety and the leadership’s reliance on geographic isolation and the trust they put on citizens with positions of power. Throughout the years, espionage in the United States was constructed by the economic, social, and political dynamics of the country (Sulick, 2012, p. 7).
