THE STUPID CIA

What the hell was the CIA doing in Latin America in 1954, and why were they trying to overthrow the duly elected government of Guatemala? For God's sake, what a bunch of crap.

This is part of Jon Lee Anderson's bio of Che Guevara. Pages 132-133.

It is maddening. So while young Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- not yet known as Che -- was talking about violence to get the USA out of Latin America, our CIA was meddling in places where it had no business meddling.

I don't know which was worse, Che or the CIA. At least Che was young and naive. The U.S. government should have known better.

Where was our integrity? Talk about social engineering.

And Eisenhower was president, a man I used to admire. Jesus.

-- Roger

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