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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1034)	1/17/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: Joss	Respond to of 9980

Hi Yiwu Zhang, I am sure CIA also did something of similar nature but the US public might never know. Please share with us the details of this horrific event which you mention with certainty of knowledge, that was perpetrated by the CIA and never known to the American Public. This country loves a scandal...there are hundreds of reporters who will jump at the chance to publish. Again, please share. Steve

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1034)	1/17/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Zhang, <<I am sure CIA also did something of similar nature but the US public might never know.>> Since you do not specify I do not know what you are referencing with this remark. I suspect it just a swipe at the Americans which you seem to enjoy doing. But I will observe that CIA misdeeds in South America did become widely known and written about in the American press. As a result the CIA is much more constrained today by congressional oversight. Fact is, I suspect that The CIA, by comparison to most other intelligence agencys in the world, operate with considerable more restraint then, for example, the Mossad or MI6. Its one of the advantages of our system of democracy and a very clear example to me that it can, and occasionally does, work. Best, Stitch

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1034)	1/18/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Worswick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Why do you suggest this? "I'm sure the CIA has done something similar?" Do you want to turn this into a discusion of we did this and you did that? I think in light of what happened in Rwanda it is a small minded thought for you to suggest comprable horrors, as if this somehow forgives any horror, or genocide. Will your people ever forgive the Nanking Massacre? By saying "Oh, well these things happen" I don't think gives a scrap of dignity to the victims of genocide. No, Yiwu the CIA never did a similar thing. There are a score of books published in the US - where there is still a free press - about the Phoenix program in Vietnam. The French have never admitted to this involvement in Rwanda.