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Behind the Bamboo Curtain | CIA

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Jack Downey's Agent of Subversion

Downey: The CIA thought they could just drop Chinese people near their hometowns and ask them to overthrow the government. He says that in fact, first of all, there's a lot of public support for the new government. Downey: People are not all waiting to be liberated, quite the opposite. They're ready to get credit by going to their local authority," he writes.

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