(from American Assassination; The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone by Four Arrows & Jim Fetzer)
1947: President Truman sends military aid to Greece to support right-wing forces fighting communist rebels.
1948: CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy when communists threaten to win elections.
1952: In Iran, The CIA overthrows democratically elected Mossadegh in a military coup after he threatened to nationalize British oil and replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police are brutal and kill many.
1954: In Guatemala, CIA overthrows democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned Fruit Company in which CIA DIrector Allen Dulles owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose brutal policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans.
1954-58: CIA attempts to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam.
1957-74: CIA carries out almost one coup per year to nullify Laosian democratic elections. CIA defeats result by U.S. dropping more bombs than it did in WWII. A quarter of all Laotians become refugees.
1958: U.S. military helps put into place Duvalier as dictator of Haiti. His police will kill more than 100,000 and the U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record.
1963: CIA overthrows democratically elected President Juan Bosch in a military coup in the Dominican Republic, and installs a repressive, right-wing junta. The same thing happens in Ecuador.
1964: In Brazil, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will become among the most bloodthirsty in history.
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