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Then there was that caper in Venezuela in the fifties. President Jacobo Arbenz was elected in a landslide. The people's will was overcome by the CIA.
The reason was that Arbenz appropriated some land controlled by the Rockefellers as owners of United Fruit Company. So Arbenz had come and gone before you could say ... well, CIA.
There is so much to be said, Newt and John, but this is just a thumbnail sketch of how this humane organization has served America and the world.
I hate to bring this up, but there was all that drug talk a few years back by the committee chaired by Senator John Kerry. It's understandable if such a reminder prompts you distinguished gentlemen and bearers of the Washington, D.C. freedom torch to blush beet red.
It was nasty of Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall to bring this whole untidy business up in "Cocaine Politics."
It seems that the Contras of Nicaragua, the group that no less than your Republican Party icon Ronald Reagan called "the moral equivalent of the founding fathers," were using planes on which Oliver North was supplying arms in violation of U.S. law and the Boland Amendment into Nicaragua to ship drugs back into the United States.
These are just a few brush strokes, gentlemen. There is so much that can and will be chronicled about the CIA.
Meanwhile we will have to take your word that representatives of such an august body would never stoop to declaring an untruth.
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