Desi Bouterse person
also: Colonel Desi, Desi, D-E-S-I, Bouterse, B-O-U-T-E-R-S-E, Bouters, Baltus regime
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Ronald Reagan ordered_assassination_of
Desi Bouterse host_asserted
“had authorized the CIA to top. So this is confusing the way this is worded. William Casey went to the House and Senate Intel committees and basically said, President Reagan has given me the authority to overthrow Suriname's ruler. And that …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 52:06
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had authorized the CIA to top. So this is confusing the way this is worded. William Casey went to the House and Senate Intel committees and basically said, President Reagan has given me the authority to overthrow Suriname's ruler. And that …
▶ 52:38
I'm sure that's not how you say it. That's how I'm going to say it. The agency's plan reportedly called for the formation of an exile paramilitary force to invade Suriname because Bouters had taken power in a 1980 military coup, was leading…
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as it relates to Reagan or his administration as an inhibiting factor to the CIA, there was no reason to believe that the story ended at that point, you know, because they don't care what Congress says anyway. Not that Congress actually doe…
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They're actually telling you that they mounted a propaganda campaign to convince the Suriname president that they were coming for him and that they were going to do to him exactly what they did to Maurice Bishop, which was assassinate him a…