CIA sponsored regime change
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The CIA was actively involved in promoting US interests abroad by overthrowing regimes that were deemed unfriendly. Many regimes were falsely accused of being communist as an excuse to garner presidential support for overthrowing the regime. Other regimes were overthrown because they threatened to nationalize important resources like oil or to nationalize US owned companies. [1].
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[edit] Iran and Mossadegh
The CIA overthrew the Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh who had attempted to nationalize Iran's oil threatening the interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The coup which was called Operation Ajax was led by CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt, Jr..
[edit] Guatemala
The CIA overthrew the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Arbenz had nationalized a US owned fruit exporting company and the owner of the company who had close ties to the Dulles brothers convinced them to overthrow the regime.
[edit] Failed CIA coups in Cuba
The largest and most complicated CIA-led coup effort was the Bay of Pigs operation where CIA trained Cuban anti-communist mercenaries were landed in Cuba to help overthrow the Castro regime. The CIA made many attempts to assassinate Castro.
- See also: Cuba-United States relations
[edit] Failed Coups against Hugo Chávez
There was an attempt to overthrow Hugo Chávez and he has outspokenly accused the CIA of being behind it. The anti-Chavez rhetoric coming from the US government and the Christian right has convinced many that the claims of Chavez are true [2].
[edit] See also
- Overthrow (book)
- Overthrow of the Hawai'ian Monarchy
- List of United States military history events
- William Walker (soldier) (1824 - 1860)
- Australian constitutional crisis of 1975
[edit] References
- Stephen Kinzer Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Times Books, 2006, ISBN 0805078614
- Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation - The Conquest of the Middle East; (October 2005) London. Fourth Estate, xxvi, 1366 pages. ISBN 1-84115-007-X
- The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History by Chalmers Johnson
- William Blum 2003 Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, revised edition (Common Courage Press) ISBN 1-56751-252-6
