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Central Intelligence Agency, The | The CIA Promotes Violence

Steve Kangas was a well-known champion of liberal causes and creator of the award-winning website Liberalism Resurgent. Kangas died in February 1999.

Summary: The CIA promotes political unrest, human rights violations, and military coups worldwide. The agency uses appalling tactics, including propaganda, purchased elections, blackmail, kidnapping, torture, death squads, and assassination. The CIA justifies these methods as necessary to fight the war against communism, but most of the CIA’s actions are undertaken to protect America’s economic interests abroad....

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