Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo. Some CIA agents knew that Dominican dissidents, who had enjoyed U.S. support, intended to kill the despot. The Americans supplied them with three pistols and three carbines. There is "conflicting evidence" as to whether the weapons were knowingly supplied for an assassination and whether any of them were used when Trujillo was shot down...
...political payments and to agree not to make any more. Some have complied, others are resisting. Last week Ashland Oil Inc. argued that securities laws do not require public disclosure of the recipients of questionable payments that the company says it has made in Nigeria, Gabon, Libya and the Dominican Republic. Ashland has already supplied the names...
Sudan Guatemala, Greece, Bolivia, Chana, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Chile... all these countries are now ruled by dictatorships imposed through CIA-supported coups. It makes one wonder who to blame...
Agee's personal life, however, was not as successful as his professional endeavors. His marriage was breaking up and he found himself increasingly disillusioned with his work in the CIA. Agee writes that he felt disgusted with the American Marine invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. He says he was also deeply affected by hearing the screams and moans of an Uruguayan man being tortured by the police after Agee had reported him to be a member of a communist organization. In August of 1966 Agee returned to the U.S., where he was reassigned to Mexico under the cover...
...call that Americans must fight to make the world safe for democracy. Except for one serious interlude of isolationism, this view remained at the heart of American foreign policy until Viet Nam, and it was shared by many of America's friends. As recently as 1959, the French Dominican Father R.L. Bruckberger exhorted us thus: "Americans, Americans, return to the first seed you sowed . . . Your task is to extend the Declaration of Independence to the whole world, to all nations and all races...