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History of US empire: Latin America & JFK - CIA terror war on Cuba, coups in Brazil & Dominican Rep.

Geopolitical Economy Report

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The Negative Effects of Power and Secrecy on the Left

Aaron Carroll: The Soviets and the Czechs were supposed to be blamed if assassination plot got blown. But that was also blown open with the with the Turks, he says. "You always find a scapegoat that you can lay off any blame and hide your own involvement" It's sort of the Saddam Hussein logic of hey if we can't see the weapons then that must mean that they're even more powerful than we ever thought," Aaron adds.

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