Western Hemisphere place
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Claims (3)
CIA operated_in
Western Hemisphere documented
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“Using the covert action budget as one measure of activity the scope of political and psychological action during the 1950s was greatest in the Far East Western Europe and the Middle East with steadily increasing activity in the Western Hemi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.155
Special Intelligence Service operated_in
Western Hemisphere documented
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“On June 24 1940 President Roosevelt issued a directive assigning foreign intelligence responsibilities in the Western Hemisphere to a Special Intelligence Service of the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.430
CIA operated_in
Western Hemisphere documented
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“The Cuban effort coincided with a major increase in the Agency's overall Latin American program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.74
Mentions (4)
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Directorate of Plans remained the largest component of the CIA, a thousand stronger than when Ike had taken, basically was in charge. Accounting for 54% of the agency's budget, it had field stations in Africa that increased by 55% from 1959…
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So Cuba was the lost leader for Dulles. Now, I'm going to suggest, I have no evidence of this. We've talked about it many times. If you look at it from a marketing perspective, if you want to sell the ability to have access to all of the re…
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And then you use Castro as the way of controlling the leadership throughout the entire Western Hemisphere. So whatever money is put towards Castro, as long as he stays alive, he justifies spending billions of dollars throughout Latin Americ…
▶ 23:21
An extra 1,000 CIA personnel supported the director of operations work. Field stations in Africa increased by half between 59 and 63. You know, because we're going to overthrow a bunch of governments there. Reflecting the rise of Tweedy's A…