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...burgers, however, are his biggest coup to date...
ALFREDO STROESSNER Paraguay After a 1989 coup ended his 35-year dictatorship, he hightailed it to Brazil, where he lives a luxurious life, with his wife, in a mansion outside the capital of Brasilia...
August 1953 In Operation Ajax, CIA officers in Iran engineer a coup against Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring SHAH REZA PAHLAVI to the throne. The agency's role soon becomes widely known...
June 1954 The CIA organizes a coup in Guatemala by COLONEL CARLOS CASTILLO ARMAS and other officers against leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman...
Sept. 11, 1973 GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET, left, deposes Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende, right, who commits suicide. The CIA, which had organized a failed coup in 1970, encouraged Pinochet but denies direct involvement to this...