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		floralhangnail 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case f... In an alternate timeline, maybe he would have become more of a dangerous liability, but I think it would have been cheaper for the CIA to overthrow him in any case

shigawire 6 months ago [–]

The CIAs track record here is terrible. It basically only succeeds if there is already a viable opposition that it can hand bags of cash.

It can't create regime change out of nothing, despite what it's detractors and its own propaganda might claim.

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