Parapolitics/USA (The Complete Set, 1981-1983)

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Former CIA director Stansfield Turner disclosed that during the Carter administration his agency sought ways to overthrow Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, Libya’s Muammar el Khadafi, Cuba’s Castro, and the Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. In each case he decided that such operations would be impractical (BS 5-12-83).

ABC News has reported that President Reagan authorized a secret plan to overthrow the government of Suriname with a paramilitary force of exiles but dropped the idea when Congress objected. A similar plan was considered against the leftist government of Grenada (SJN 6-1-83; SJM 2-27-83).

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