-BRAZIL 1964: US Navy in Rio de Janeiro port backs fascist coup against a popular president (while your author visits frightened university professors behind locked doors).
-THAILAND 1962: US Marines land, enforce homicidal repression (1985 author on State Dept Arts America program assignment Bangkok Symphony experiences brutal military lockdown of university campus where he was lodged).
-GUIANA 1961: Kennedy orders CIA to subvert PM Cheddi Jagan after White House visit; AFL-CIO's Amer. Institure for Free Labor Development funds unions scare; fire set, center of the city burned; full blockade ships/planes new radio stations, papers, print false stories; re approaching Cuban warships; Riots; 100 die. [New York Times, 10/30/1994]
-VENEZUELA 2002: US funds almost successful overthrow of President Chavez (author's own musicians' union unwittingly participated)/2014 US backs street terror against government (author week-long guest of Foreign Ministry Nov. 2013 - previously concerts in '64, '66 - soldiers guard in front and back of airport bus).
-URUGUAY 1969: notorious CIA Dan Mitrione teaches torture techniques to the death squads that "rival the Nazis"/(1964 author on State Dept.- sponsored concert tour in Montevideo during Tupamaro's uprising).
-ECUADOR 1963: A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana; military junta cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human rights.
-TAIWAN 1948: US Seventh Fleet Protects defeated Chang Kai Chek armies in takeover of Taiwanese population followed by years of repression. [Allies had considered Taiwan to be under Allied military occupation but still under Japanese sovereignty until 1952.](1997 Taipei, author gives class, judges band competition, studies.)
-USA ITSELF 1947 onward: Operation MOCKINGBIRD -- CIA recruits news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminaters of propaganda. Washington Post becomes a major CIA player. Eventually CIA's media assets include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more./(1952 media believing author as youth accepts draft - four of his basic training bunkmates buried in N. Korea.)
-WORLDWIDE 1960s-1914: CIA involved in lives destroying illegal drug cultivation and trafficking has cause impossible-to-estimate loss of life worldwide - also CIA hypocritical anti-narcotics programs mean to spread further CIA penetration and covert violence for political-economic control in Latin America.
-ITALY 1922 -1936: Fascist Mussolini frequently lionized in both the New York Times and Washington Post, Fortune Magazine; Morgan Bank's Thomas Lamont, served as the international chief of Mussolini's finances; Mussolini received considerable investment aid from US bankers, as well as his own banker, Bank of America head A.P. Giannini. Otto Kahn, a leading banker with Kuhn, Loeb and Pres. Franklin Roosevelt expressed admiration/1944-45 US Army favors fascists politicians over communists/1948 CIA false flags in Italian election (1973-78 author learns history from fascist and communists fellow musicians of Rome RAI Orchestra;1954 student).
-MALAWI -1964-1990: US State Dept. supports most murderous dictator in Africa, Hastings Banda, in 1995 arrested and tried for murder and other charges. "US turns blind eye for his anti-communism, close links with apartheid South Africa and brand of private enterprise wherein he controlled 35% of GDP./(1983 author in team on film shoot for African Development Bank denied entry at airport for itinerary including Communist Ethiopia.)
-MALI 2014: US Air Force flies in French soldiers and 124 tons of equipment into France's former colony; presence of US Special Operations forces across northern Africa involved in French deadly actions/(1983, author in Bamako and near Niger river for African Development Bank Film shoot.)
-KENYA 2011: US funded and equipped Kenya Armed Forces adheres to US-NATO decades of invasions of Somalia to retain warlord governments and invades as well, bringing blowback shopping mall terrorist attack and much other loss of life responses from Kenyan Somalis; Daily Mail sees CIA involvement [](1983 Author working in Nairobi and countryside year after abortive coup.)
-SOUTH AFRICA 1962-2008: Nelson Mandela on US 'Terrorist List' through 2008; widely believed to have facilitated his arrest and imprisonment. Congress and CIA continued involvement during years of racist murdering and freedom struggle. (1983, author experiences visually frightening African repression during half day wait in Johanesberg Airport)/1986 US Congress voted for Mandala release)
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