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[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

oh I CANT WAIT for all the details of this one to come out... If it's anything like the Operation Gideon hatchet job it'll be fucking hilarious.

Unfortunately we'll probably have to wait about 50 years for the details of MI6 and CIA involvement (with major official and unofficial redactions). If a U.S ambassador claims no involvement... they were involved as fuck.

I mean, look at this outright lie about Goulart's overthrow in Brazil - "The answer to that, senator, is very simple. The movement which overthrew President Goulart was a purely, 100 percent—not 99.44—but 100 percent purely Brazilian movement. Neither the American Embassy nor I personally played any part in the process whatsoever."

Meanwhile, "There was, moreover, the ongoing US Military Assistance Program, which Ambassador Gordon described as a "major vehicle for establishing close relationships with personnel of the armed forces" and "a highly important factor in influencing [the Brazilian] military to be pro-US."

As far as the US Ambassador to Brazil himself attempting a literal multimillion dollar bribe - "Ambassador Cabot remembers a "stormy conversation" in which Berle stated the United States had $300 million in reserve for Brazil and in effect "offered it as a bribe" for Brazilian cooperation ... Quadros became "visibly irritated" after Berle refused to heed his third "no".

Brazil is of course quite an old example now, but it's one that I had the quotes ready for where the U.S truly went mask off.

As time goes they're more careful, so you end up with admissions like this one from Kissinger, that they totally didn't have any involvement with the coup - 'Kissinger himself told Nixon five days after the coup: "We didn't do it. I mean we helped them. [Word missing] created the conditions as great as possible."

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