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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: tekboy who wrote (18093)2/6/2002 12:46:21 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I had a peon's view of the events described here, and let's just say that Baer's presentation (which was excerpted in Vanity Fair recently) is pretty self-serving.

Oops. I can't match your view. In general, though, I think people often underestimate the kind of risks that internal opposition to well-entrenched police states face. It's one thing to overthrow an Allende or Lumumba, but quite another to stage manage an insurrection from Langley where all the insurrectionists may very likely disappear without a trace.

Anyway, elsewhere on the CIA front, did you notice this article? nybooks.com ? Do you know of Thomas Powers? Judging from nybooks.com , he seems to have been on the Company watch for quite some time. I haven't read any of that stuff, but I remember an old article of his from the Atlantic, early '80s, on nuclear policy. It was alternately chilling and entertaining.
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