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The CIA was tasked with intelligence gathering and covert actions to promote the American agenda globally. Under longtime director Allen Dulles, this agenda refined into fighting Communism (or perceived Communism) on the world stage. This has taken the form of supporting right wing dictators, funding and training right wing death squads and supporting and orchestrating coups against the leaders of other sovereign nations. Its important to note, the CIA isn't a law enforcement agency, they're an espionage organization. They have no legal basis other than what is given to them by the United States, and they have no meaningful oversight. They operate across the globe and their budget grows every year The existence of the CIA has become so normalized that it's often hard to take a step back and look at the CIA for what it really is: An arm of the United States government unilaterally enacting policy through extrajudicial killings across the world. Throughout this book you will find all sorts of puzzles and brain teasers that will teach you all about the CIA in roughly chronological order. The answers and sources for further reading can be found in the back, and remember, some of the puzzles are tricks, because the game is, of course, rigged. Who’s Who? Some of the biggest names in US history have had ties to the CIA, and the ClA has shaped the lives of people the world over. I’m Allen Dulles, CIA director from 1951 to 1963. | oversaw coups in Guatemala, Iran, Laos, North Vietnam and the Congo, and operations like MK-Ultra. | was ousted by JFK for failing to execute a successful in Cuba, and that’s why | had him killed (that’s a joke) I’m René Schneider, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army. | was murdered by the CIA to allow the Chilean military to stage a coup against President Salvador Allende. I’m George H.W. Bush. Yep that one. | was the CIA director at the height of Operation Condor and as Vice President | was involved in Iran-Contra. | died at age 94, content, remorseless, and totally unaccountable. Also, as President | gave you Clarence Thomas. You're welcome. Hi, l'm Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo. After a military coup, | was executed by firing squad and dissolved in a barrel of acid. The CIA was actively plotting my death, but they deny any involvement. Flip to the answer key to find out what happened to my remains. Operation Paperclip After World War II, the US launched a covert program to bring more than 1,600 scientists and engineers from Nazi Germany to the United States. These scientists included members and leaders of the Nazi party and many went on to have decorated careers at the US Army and NASA. Nazi war criminal Werhner Von Braun was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 for his role in the Apollo missions. Can you find the Nazi among these respectable rocket scientists? Flip to the back to find the solution! Did you know? In the decades after WWII the CIA also directly recruited more than 1,000 Nazis to act as spies and informants, including Aleksandras Lileikis, who oversaw the murder of 60,000 Lithuanian Jews. Operation AJAX In 1953, the CIA overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. Mosaddegh wanted to nationalize Iranian oil, but the British and American governments (and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, today BP) wanted that oil for themselves. The coup restored power to the Shah, who was friendly to the US and foreign oil interests. Can you help CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt escape the streets of Tehran and get to his waiting airplane while avoiding the crowds he paid to protest in the streets? Operation Gladio After World War II, the CIA coordinated with European intelligence agencies to train and equip a stay-behind network of anti- communist (and often explicitly fascist) operatives who could be activated in the event of a Soviet invasion of Europe. The countries in white had Gladio operatives, can you draw in defenders of freedom to oppose the red menace of the Soviets? Draw stars in Turkey for the Gladio-backed coup and in Italy for the Gladio-perpetrated murder of the prime minister. mee. | 3 NA, У Spot the difference Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz had plans to redistribute land to Indigenous peasants. This threatened United Fruit Company’s banana-based business model, so they lobbied the US government to overthrow Arbenz. One of these CIA operations was rejected the other was implemented. Can you spot the differences that made the second one justifiable? Operation PBFortune Land reforms enacted by the Arbenz administration threaten the holdings of the United Fruit Company. The CIA will train and fund exiled Guatemalan army officer Carlos Castillo Armas, who will launch a coup from his hideout in Nicaragua and instate himself as dictator in 1952. Status: Authorized by President Truman in 1952 Aborted by the State Department once they found out Operation PBSuccess Land reforms enacted by the Arbenz administration threaten the holdings of the United Fruit Company. The CIA will train and fund exiled Guatemalan army officer Carlos Castillo Armas, who will launch a coup from his hideout in Honduras and instate himself as dictator in 1954. Status: Authorized by President Eisenhower in 1953 Arbenz deposed in 1954 Did you know? The United Fruit Company still exists, in 1984 it became Chiquita. The Bay of Pigs In 1961, the CIA recruited, trained and armed Cuban exiles living in Miami to stage an invasion of Cuba to overthrow the Castro government. The CIA hoped that news of invasion would lead to a national insurrection and the defeat of the communist leader. The 1,500 CIA backed forces made landfall, but quickly found themselves outnumbered by the Cuban Army. Below is a photo from the invasion, can you find the CIA air support? Operation Acoustic Kitty In the 1960s, the CIA spent $20 million (the equivalent of more than $175 million today) on Operation Acoustic Kitty. CIA scientists surgically embedded a wireless transmitter and microphone into the body of a cat and planned to use the cat to listen in on covert operations. The project was discontinued in 1967 when the CIA decided that it “would not be practical.” SECRET CONVERSATION ANTENNA [x L^ Reassemble the Shredded Document The CIA is famous for burning and shredding documents. Much of the records of CIA activities in the 1950s, including the coups in Iran and Guyana and covert actions in Indonesia, have been destroyed. The CIA reports that these records were destroyed because “their safes were too full.” While burned documents are unrecoverable, some shredded documents can still be decoded. After the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, Iranian intelligence was able to reassemble enough poorly shredded CIA documents to publish a 77 volume collection entitled “Documents from the US Espionage Den” This is an actual document found in the training files for Operation PBSuccess (the 1954 CIA backed coup in Guatemala). Cut it out along the vertical lines and reassemble the document shreds to reveal the declassified secrets. covering fr Magazine. MKUltra In 1973, the public learned of MKUltra, ongoing CIA experiments on brainwashing and mind control that had been tested on American citizens without their knowledge or consent. Most MKUltra files were destroyed іп 1973 by CIA Director Richard Helms, but several thousand were misfiled and later declassified. Can you reveal the hidden message to see what the CIA learned from 20 years of study (that violated the Nuremburg codes)? Spot the Front The CIA operates, maintains and supports a large number of front organizations, including many airlines. Which of these airlines are CIA fronts and which are terrible for normal airline reasons? American Ж Airlines ««« EVERGREEN = МА ASIA Company Limited Tepperg Aviation Inc. _ Mn Continental Air Services St. Lucia Airways Killing Castro The CIA famously tried to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro more than 600 times. Can you decode their methods? P сл Operation Mockingbird The 1976 Church Committee report revealed that the CIA had used the media to influence public opinion and distribute propaganda domestically and abroad. In 1977, reporter Carl Bernstein expanded on this revelation and named a number of press organizations that had relationships with the CIA. 1. Nonprofit news agency, publishes an industry standard stylebook 2. Where you go to meet the press 3. International UK based news agency 4. Broadcasting company, home of the national spelling bee 5. Magazine famous for its Norman Rockwell covers 6. Radio network that brought you The Shadow and the Lone Ranger 7. Home of the Brady Bunch, Grey’s Anatomy and Abbott Elementary 8. Weekly news magazine, made OJ darker 9. Basis for Citizen Kane and “Remembering the Maine” 10. The Grey Lady who broke the Pentagon Papers and now hosts some of the worst op-eds you've ever read 11. Florida-based newspaper, distributed throughout the Caribbean and Latin America 10 SRE HARDEE SRE a dd n The Secret War Beginning in the late 50s, the CIA began recruiting, training and arming thousands of Hmong men and boys to fight against communists in Laos as an auxiliary to the Vietnam War. After the war ended, the CIA abandoned the tens of thousands of Hmong soldiers and their families to experience displacement and genocide for their involvement with the US in the war. Can the CIA help these Hmong soldiers escape to the United States? TE a [ЈЕ Refugee Camp (uate IRE Wat “i Thamkrabok pe zs | [5t] Operation Cyclone: Spot the Difference From 1979 until the fall of the Soviet Union, the CIA supplied training and billions of dollars in weapons to Afghan Mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Some of these Mujahideen later became the Taliban. Take a look at the two pictures below. Left: Jalaluddin Haqqani, an anti-Soviet warrior and prized CIA asset, described as “goodness personified” and “a freedom fighter” by US officials Right: Jalaluddin Haqqani, a terrorist warlord, Taliban ally, and close associate of Osama Bin Laden, responsible for kidnappings, beheadings, an ethnic cleansing against the Tajik populations credited with introducing suicide bombings into Afghanistan. Can you spot the differences between the two? Coups The CIA has been involved in overthrowing a number of democratically elected leaders. Can you match each leader to their country and the aftermath to the coup? Jacobo Arbenz British Guiana Guatemala Chile Republic of Abd al-Karim Qasim Ghana Joao Goulart Indonesia the Congo Mohammad Mossadegh Brazil Salvador Allende |гад Military dictatorship of Made honorary co- Mobutu Sese Seko and two civil wars president of Guinea, where he died in exile Power restored to the Re-elected president in Shah 1992 A series of coups Executed after the | The military dictatorship Ramadan Revolution of Suharto and 1 million massacred by CIA trained death squads Executed and dissolved in sulfuric acid Constitution suspended by the British Assassinated in exile Da i A civil war lasting until 1996, 200,000 civilians Heart attack in exile killed and a genocide 21 Years of military dictatorship and human rights violations House arrest until his death Committed suicide as 27 years of military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet the presidential palace was being captured A military junta and Also house arrest until destruction of the his death economy Matching Game: Regime Change Can you match the 20" century US president to the countries they “changed the regime of’? Keep in mind that some countries government were overthrown more than once! Afghanistan Angola Argentina Bolivia Brazil Cambodia Chad Chile Congo Cuba Dominican Republic East Timor Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Haiti Indonesia Iran Iraq Myanmar Nicaragua Panama Poland Syria Vietnam Disappearing Dissidents Operation Condor was campaign of state terror and political violence that formally began in 1975 and ran until 1989, with the CIA funding and training the death squads of military dictators in South America. Estimates are that more than 50,000 were killed, 30,000 were disappeared and 400,000 were imprisoned. Involved from the beginning was US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Can you untangle which of these countries coordinated with Kissinger as a part of Operation Condor? The Hunt For Bin Laden In 2011, the CIA staged a Hepatitis B vaccination program to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. The DNA gathering may not have actually worked, but you can’t blame the CIA for trying! Can you you disguise this CIA agent as a doctor? Don't forget to draw: Stethoscope [ i ү Surgical Mask Needles е апа vaccines c8 B VACCINE IBINANTI MCOMBIVAX HB° 1.3 million rupees to ak, bribe local |. officials = TABBi4. Decryption The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) gives a person the right to request federal agency records. Agencies can still redact information on requested record. Below is a declassified memo that longtime CIA director of public affairs Herbert Hetu sent to the CIA legislative councilor George Cary. Can you decrypt it? 2 13-1-3-2-1-24-1 6-18-1 8-11-1-15-19-22-17 2-4-8-11-1 18-83-17 17-23-14-14-1-5-1-21 23-15-15-1-19-1-17-17-85-22 21-8-4-8-11-1 8-15-21 6-18-1 10-23-13-3-2-19 18-8-17 13-1-1-15 4-2-17-3-1-21 13-1-19-8-23-17-1 7-14 14-7-2-8 5-1-16-23-2-5-1-4-1-15-6-17 6-7 5-1-3-1-8-17-1 13-2-6-17 8-15-21 10-2-1-19-1-17 7-14 2-15-14-7-5-4-8-6-2-7-15 A=8 F=14 K=12 P=10 U=23 B=13 G=11 L=3 Q=16 V=24 C=19 H=18 M=4 R=5 W=25 D=21 |=2 М=15 S=17 Y=22 E=1 J=9 O=7 T=6 2=20 Iran-Contra Can you solve a real life international crime? Once you have your answers circled, flip to the end to see if you've gotten it right. In 1979, the US began a trade embargo against Iran. In 1981, The US used the CIA to support the Contras, a militia rebelling against the socialist Sandinista government. The Contras biggest source of money was the cocaine trade. In 1984, Congress passed the Boland amendment, prohibiting the use of government funds for the Contras. és President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George HW Bush, with the support of CIA director William Casey directed Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter to sell $30 million worth of missiles to Iran, through Israel. LTC Oliver North funneled $18 million of this money to the Contras, with the assistance of 4 CIA officers. Circle the in BLUE what you think the crime was Circle in RED the people you think are guilty Underline the people you think were found guilty Around The World! The CIA really gets around! From everything you've learned in this book, can you label the countries whose leaders the CIA has overthrown? “Enhanced Interrogation” In 2002, the Bush administration granted the CIA's request to use torture to extract information from captives. “Enhanced interrogation” revealed no actual intelligence, and no US government official has been held accountable for these human rights abuses. Can you fill in the blanks to unlock what the techniques all have in common? ATTEN_ION GRASP FACIAL H_LD COLD TEMPE_ATURE WA_ERBOARDING DIETARY MANIP_LATION WALL S_ANDING SL_EP DEPRIVATION In Conclusion The CIA will be the first to tell you that none of their agents have ever been the one to kill any foreign head of state. Regardless of whether or not this is technically true, it obfuscates the role the CIA has played in planning, funding and enabling extrajudicial assassinations. The CIA is not a law enforcement agency, they have no jurisdiction and therefore no constraints. To reiterate the introduction to this activity book, the CIA has no legitimate basis for their authority or actions. The entirety of their justification rests on the fact that the United States is powerful enough that it cannot meaningfully be held accountable on the world stage. No other country could get away with what the United States has done through the CIA. From Allen Dulles to the presidents authorizing the assassination of foreign heads of state to the CIA agents running a brothel and dosing people with LSD in Operation Midnight Climax, all of them have been convinced that the actions they were taking were correct, necessary and justified. And to me, that is the most unsettling part. We will never know the full extent of the CIA's history or their involvement in coups, terrorism, and repression worldwide. This is by design. The CIA is fundamentally unaccountable to anyone, even the security state that spawned it. You cannot protest the CIA in any meaningful way. You cannot even protest the CIA by being the sovereign leader of your own independent country, that’s the sort of shit that gets you killed. As long as the CIA exists, it is proof that on some level, the whole world is subject to the agenda of the United States. Did you know? The CIA's 1947 charter prohibits it from operating in the US or spying on US citizens, but that hasn’t stopped it! Operation Paperclip They're all Nazis. This photo of the Von Braun rocket team was taken in 1959. For more of his speech * Marco Margaritoff 2020 "Inside Operation Paperclip" AllThatsInteresting • Annie Jacobsen, 2016, Operation Paperclip, the secret military program that brought Nazi scientists to America. Little, Brown Operation Ajax Kermit Roosevelt was also the grandson of Teddy Roosevelt. do A | For more Information • Malcolm Byrne “CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup” National Security Archive • Bethany Allen- Ebrahimian. 2017 & “64 Years Later, CIA V. Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup” Foreign Policy Operation Gladio Gladio operatives were involved in the 1978 murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and the 1980 Turkish coup, among other acts of violence and terrorism. For more information • Clare Pedrick. 1990. “CIA Organized Secret Army in Western Europe” Washington Post. e Archer S3E08 Lo Scandalo, 2012 • Well There’s Your Problem episode 34, Ustica Massacre * Hugh Wilford. 2008. The Mighty Wurlitzer. Harvard Spot the Difference The difference is the Truman administration vs the Eisenhower administration. Truman was a bastard and a war criminal in his own right, but he seemed to not be on board with non-wartime coups. Sources • Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh. “CIA and Assassination: The Guatemala 1954 Documents” National Security Archive. • Pablo Neruda “La United Fruit Co” • Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer. 2005. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded. Bay of Pigs You won't be able to find them! They got confused with the time difference coming and didn’t show up until an hour too late. The public nature of this disaster is what led JFK to ask for the resignation of longtime CIA director Allen Dulles. Sources * Lauren Harper and Thomas Blanton. 2016. "CIA released Controversial Bay of Pigs History” National Security Archive • Tim Weiner. 1998. “CIA Bares its Bungling in Report on Bay of Pigs Invasion” New York Times Operation Acoustic Kitty As it turns out, cats make bad spies Sources • Alexis Madrigal, 2013. “Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA's Would-Be Cat Spy” The Atlantic • Kat Eschner. 2017. “The CIA Experimented On Animals in the 1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty” Smithsonian Magazine Reassemble the Shredded Document A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION JUSTIFICATION Murder is not morally justifiable. Self-défense may be argued if the victim has knowledge which may destroy the resistance organization if divulged. Assassination of persons responsible for atrocities or reprisals may be regarded as just punishment. Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is a clear and present danger to the cause of freedom may be held necessary. But assassination can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it. TECHNIQUES The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject. A human being may be killed in many ways but sureness is often overlooked by those who may be emotionally unstrung by the seriousness of this act they intend to commit. The specific technique employed will depend upon a large number of variables, but should be constant in one point: Death must be absolutely certain. The attempt on Hitler's life failed because the conspiracy did not give this matter proper attention. Techniques may be considered as follows: 1. Manual. It is possible to kill a man with the bare ‘hands, but very few are skillful enough to do it well. Even a highly trained Judo expert will hesitate to risk killing by hand unless he has absolutely no alternative. However, the simplest local tools are often much the most efficient means of assassination. A hammer, axe, wrench, screw driver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or anything hard, heavy and handy will sufice. 2. Accidents. For secret assassination, either simple cr chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement anc. is only casually investigated. The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. Bridge falls into water are not reliable. 1 (1) Enters room quickly but quietly (2) Stands in doorway (2) Finishes burst. Commands "shift." Drops back thru [sic] door. Replaces empty magazine. Covers corridor. (1) On comrnand "shift", opens fire on opposite side of target, swings one burst across group. (2) Leaves room. Commands "GO". Covers rear with nearly full magazine. (1) On command "GO", leads withdrawal, covering front with full magazine. For more about the CIA's record keeping * Tim Weiner. 1997 "CIA Destroyed Files on 1953 Iran Coup" New York Times > —. (2) Opens fire on first subject to react. Swings across group toward center of mass. Times burst tc empty magazine at end of swing. (1) Covers group to prevent individual dangerous reactions, if necessary, fires individual bursts of 3 rounds. (1) Finishes burst. Commands "shift". Drops back thru [sic] door. Re»laces magazine. Covers corridor. (2) On command, "shift", re-enters room. Covers group: kills surv.vors with two- round bursts. Leaves propaganda. • Ryan Reilly. 2011 “The CIA Saves Power By Shredding And Burning Classified Document. Talking Points Memo Spot the Front The front organizations are Southern Air Transport, Evergreen, Air America, Air Asia, Continental Air Services, Tepper Aviation and St. Lucia Airways The the real airlines are American, Southwest and Spirit. For more about the front airlines • William M. Leary. “CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974” • Jane Mayer. 2006 “The CIA's Travel Agent” The New Yorker • Noah Schatman. 2011. “Legendary CIA Airline Now In Danger of Crashing” Wired * James Whaton. 2021. "Air America: When the CIA Secretly Bought an Airline” Forces MKU!tra Coloring Page Many of the surviving documents are digitized in the MKUltra collection on archive.org Sources • Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada The Fifth Estate * Stephen Kinzer. 2019. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for a Mind Control Drug. Henry Holt and Co. Killing Castro 1. Planting a conch shell with an explosive at his favorite diving site so when he picked it up it would explode. 2. Giving him a handkerchief with deadly bacteria on it 3. Convincing one of his mistresses to kill him 4. Slipping him a poisoned cigar 5. Blowing up his podium when he gave a speech 6. Poisoning his milkshake Castro died in 2016, outliving 8 CIA directors and 6 Presidents who tried to kill him. More on the plots • Fabian Escalante. 2006. Executive Action: 634 Ways to kill Fidel Castro. Ocean Press. How the CIA justified it e "Intelligence- Report on CIA Assassination Plots" in the Richard B Cheney files Operation Mockingbird Crossword The CIA denies the existence of Mockingbird to this day 1. Associated Press 7. American Broadcasting 2. National Broadcasting Company Company 8. Newsweek 3. Reuters 9. Hearst Newspapers 4. Scripps 10. New York Times 5. Saturday Evening Post 11. Miami Herald 6. Mutual Broadcasting System Sources • Carl Bernstein. 1977. “The CIA and the Media” Rolling Stone • The Black Vault. Operation Mockingbird The Secret War No, you can’t. The maze is impossible. Sorry about that. While a few of the highest ranking Hmong generals were evacuated to the US, many spent year if not decades in refugee camps, and thousands were killed before even making it to the camps in the first place. Immigration reform in the 1980s allowed some Hmong secret war veterans and their families. Because of the covert nature of the operation, many in the US didn't know about the Hmong contribution to the Vietnam War effort. For its part, the CIA considered the paramilitary operation a success because of its “small relative dollar cost.” After his death in 2011, the US army denied a request from the family of General Vang Pao, the leader of the Hmong army to be buried with military honors at Arlington. For more: • Joshua Kurlantzick. 2017. A Great Place to Have A War: Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. Simon & Schuster • Mai Der Vang. 2015. “Heirs of the Secret War in Laos” New York Times • Ра Nhia Xiong. 2020. “The Secret War: The Forgotten Hmong Heroes” California State University, Fresno. Operation Cyclone: Spot the Difference You can't spot the difference? You must not be CIA material. Haqqani joined the Taliban in 1995, and he wasnt the only Mujahideen leader to later join the Taliban. The CIA has never admitted to arming or training Osama Bin Laden during this era (and why would they?) it remains, in my opinion, very likely that Bin Laden was in the right place at the right time to benefit from the CIA anti-Soviet funding. Sources * Steve Galster. 2001 “Afghanistan, Lessons from the Last War” National Security Archive • Krishnadev Calamur. 2018. “How Jalaluddin Haqqani Went From U.S. Ally to Foe” Atlantic. Coups Arbenz- Guatemala- Heart attack- military dictatorship • Jason Clingerman. 2012. “The CIA in Guatemala.” National Archives Blog • Jacobo Arbenz, Spartacus Educational Lumumba- Republic of the Congo- Executed- Mobutu e Martin Kettle. 2000. “President ‘ordered тигдег of Congo leader" The Guardian * Tim Weiner. 2008. Legacy of Ashes. Anchor Books. Jagan- British Guiana- Re-elected- Constitution suspended * John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi. 2020. “CIA Covert Operations: The 1964 Overthrow of Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana" National Security Archive Sukarno- Indonesia- House arrest until his death- Suharto * Vincent Bevins. 2020. The Jakarta Method. Abd al-Karim Qasim- |гад- Series of coups * Patrick Cockburn. 2002. "Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam's Party in Power, 1963" Goulart- Brazil- Assassinated- 21 years of dictatorship • Peter Kornbluh. 2004. “Brazil marks 40" Anniversary of Military Coup Declassified Document Shed Light on US Role” Mossadegh- Iran- house arrest- The Shah * Stephen Kinzer. 2003. All the Shah’s Men Allende- Chile- suicide - Pinochet • Peter Kornbluh and Savannah Bock. 2020. “Allende and Chile ‘Bring Him Down.” National Security Archive. Nkrumah- Ghana- junta- honorary co-president of Guinea e Seymour Hirsh. 1978. “C.I.A. Said to Have Aided Plotters Who Overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana” New York Times • “Today in history: The CIA masterminded 1966 coup to overthrow Nkrumah” The Ghana Report. Matching Game: Regime Change Truman Johnson Reagan • Syria • Brazil • Afghanistan • Myanmar • Ghana • Angola • Indonesia • Chad Eisenhower * Vietnam * Grenada * Congo * Nicaragua * Egypt Nixon * Panama * Guatemala * Angola * Poland * Indonesia * Bolivia * |гад * |гап * Cambodia * Syria * Chile Bush * Ethiopia * iraq Kennedy * Haiti * Cuba Ford * Dominican * Argentina Clinton Republic * East Timor * Congo * |гад * Haiti * Vietnam Carter Sources for regime changes not elsewhere cited Syria * Andy Warner. 2013. "A Secret Plot in Syria" Slate * Douglas Little. 1990. *Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958" Middle East Journal Myanmar * Peter Dale Scott 2010 "Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma" The Asia-Pacific Journal Egypt * Laila Amin Morsy. 1995. “American Support for the 1952 Egyptian Coup: Why?" Middle Eastern Studies Chad * Human Rights Watch 2016 "Enabling a Dictator The United States and Chad's Hisséne Habré 1982-1990“ Disappearing Dissidents All of these countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia) were a part of Condor, as well as Chile and Paraguay. Henry Kissinger is responsible for an estimated 3 million deaths. At this point, there is no meaningful way to hold Kissinger responsible for his crimes. For more about Condor • Peter Kornbluh. 2004 “Lifting of Pinochet’s Immunity Renews Focus on Operation Condor” National Security Archive • Branko Marcetic, 2020“The CIA’s Secret War Against the Global Left” Jacobin * Giles Tremlett. 2020. “Operation Condor” The Guardian For more about Kissinger's various crimes against humanity • Ben Burgis. 2023 “Henry Kissinger Is a Disgusting War Criminal. And the Rot Goes Deeper Than Him.” Jacobin • Joshua Keating. 2018. “Anthony Bourdain Really Really Hated Henry Kissinger.” Slate. The Hunt for Bin Laden After Bin Laden’s killing in 2011, the Taliban issued a fatwa against vaccination, and began killing polio workers, undermining a decades long anti polio campaign. Dr. Shakil Afridi, who assisted the CIA in the intelligence gathering operation, is currently serving a 33 year prison sentence in Pakistan. The CIA announced that they would end fake vaccination campaigns as an intelligence strategy in 2014. Sources • Donald McNeil Jr. 2012. “C.I.A. Vaccine Ruse May Have Harmed the War on Polio” New York Times • Jackie Northam. 2021. “How The CIA's Hunt For Bin Laden Impacted Public Health Campaigns In Pakistan” NPR • Saeed Shah. 2011. “CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA” The Guardian Iran-Contra In 1979, the US began a trade embargo against Iran. In 1981, The US used the CIA to support the Contras, a militia rebelling against the socialist Sandinista government. The Contras biggest source of money was the cocaine trade. In 1984, Congress passed the Boland amendment, prohibiting the use of government funds for the Contras. President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George HW Bush, with the support of CIA director William Case directed Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter to sell $30 million worth of missiles to Iran, through Israel. LTC Oliver North funneled $18 million of this money to the Contras, with the assistance of 4 CIA officers. Everybody got pardoned by President George HW Bush Sources * Malcolm Byrne, et al 2006. “The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years on.” National Security Archive e “Portraits in Oversight: The Iran-Contra Affair" The Levin Center. Decryption FOIA "| believe the Agency's image has suffered unnecessary damage and the public has been misled because of FOIA requirements to release bits and pieces of information.” Sources • “Amendments to the Freedom of Information Act,” National Security Archive • JPat Brown. 2018. “CIA employees called for “abolishing FOIA” as one of Agency’s goals for 1984” Muckrock. The Family Jewels e Thomas Blanton, ed. 2007 “The CIA’s Family Jewels." National Security Archive. CIA Around the World This is not an exhaustive list, and does not contain all the countries the US has overthrown, just the ones with CIA involvement. 1.Guatemala 13. Iran 2. Nicaragua 14. Afghanistan 3. Panama 15. Myanmar 4. Brazil 16. Laos 5. Bolivia 17. Egypt 6. Chile 18. Chad 7. Haiti 19. Congo 8. Dominican Republic 20. Angola 9. Guyana 21. Vietnam 10. Poland 22. Cambodia 11. Syria 23. Indonesia 12. |гад Sources • “Overthrow: 100 Years of US Meddling & Regime Change” 2018 Democracy Now * William Blum “Overthrowing Other People's Governments: The Master List” Enhanced Interrogation They’re all TORTURE Sources • Ed Pilkington, 2022 “The CIA tortured him after 9/11. Then they lied. Will the truth ever come out?” The Guardian • Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Study on the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program • “No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA torture” Human Rights Watch * "What the CIA did to its Detainees” Frontline For more information, please visit PuppetStudies.org