Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...able to achieve all of its goals. To do this it spent well over a million dollars, had two presidents deposed from office and eventually paved the way for a military coup d'etat in July of 1963. According to Agee, the CIA infiltrated every political party in Ecuador. The vice president and at least two Cabinet ministers were CIA agents. The CIA trained police and military officers in intelligence and interrogation techniques and encouraged right wing terrorist bombings of left-wing politicians' homes, party headquarters, and the embassies of communist countries. CIA agents also bombed Catholic churches and Conservative...
When Agee arrived in Ecuador, it had an elected parliamentary government and was one of the few countries in Latin America with an active labor movement and friendly relations with Cuba. By the time Agee left, Ecuador was a military dictatorship: pro-American and anti-Communist, its citizens lacking both civil rights and economic well-being...
...operations in Ecuador were typical of its activities in the rest of Latin America, according to Agee. There is seemingly not a single institution or organization that is immune to CIA infiltration. In the course of his work, Agee either met with or knew of CIA agents in the U.S. Embassy, the U.S. military, the Peace Corps, the Agency for International Development (AID), the Catholic Church, various American corporations, the international AFL-CIO, all major Latin American political parties, labor unions and governments, respected newspapers, and even the Olympic Committee for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. With a budget...
After leaving Ecuador in 1963. Agee was reassigned to Uruguay, a nation that--was though to be "soft on communism" and a potential trouble sport for U.S. policy. In the aftermath of the disastrous CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, the effort to isolate Cuba was at its height. Using the same basic tactics as in Ecuador, Agee worked to infiltrate the Uruguayan Left and the government in order to force a diplomatic break with Cuba. Once again the CIA was successful, as Uruguay imposed economic and political sanctions on Cuba in September...