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DIEM. The coup against Diem was planned with the knowledge of Dean Rusk and Averell Harriman at the State Department, Robert S. McNamara and Roswell Gilpatric at the Defense Department and the late Edward R. Murrow at the U.S. Information Agency. The U.S. hoped Diem's overthrow would halt the domestic turmoil that had weakened South Viet Nam. But the CIA's director, John A. McCone, vigorously opposed the overthrow of Diem on the reasoning that none of the generals enlisted in the coup would be half as effective a leader as the man they wanted to bring...
...years later the CIA brought 60 Dominican exiles to a secret site in Venezuela, intending to use them as the spearhead of an invasion force to overthrow and kill Trujillo. But the Dominicans decided that the mission would be suicidal and backed out. In 1961, the CIA turned over three fast-firing M-l carbines and 500 rounds of ammunition concealed in a box of groceries to an intermediary for delivery to Angel Severo Cabral, a member of a group of right-wing Dominicans who were plotting against Trujillo. They apparently had expected more extensive material help from...
...Ford administration has never questioned the partition of Cyprus. President Ford seems to believe that American security is tightly linked to other nations and their social structure and Cyprus--even Greece--seems less amenable to American interests than Turkey. Since the overthrow of the legitimate Cypriot government. NATO experts have visited Turkish occupied territory to study the possibility of setting up NATO bases there; President Makarios had resisted similar plans in 1964. Ford contends that Turkey's location is "critical" because, along with Iran, it seals the Soviet Union from the Arab oil producers...
...People's Assembly, despite vigorous protests against his staunch upper-class conservatism. Also close to Sadat is Premier Mamduh Salem, 57, a former policeman who endeared himself to the President in 1971 by arresting the then Vice President Ali Sabry, a Communist sympathizer, on charges of plotting to overthrow the President. Since then, Sadat has had a record of no serious internal opposition...
...Paulo. Mazzilli first occupied the presidential palace during a tense 1961 impasse (when conservative soldiers threatened to block the accession of Leftist Vice President Joào Goulart) helping to reconcile the conflict and avert civil war. He again served as President-for twelve days-following the 1964 overthrow of Goulart...